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Cyber security comes to the classroom

<p>Over 1000 students across the country will soon benefit from streamlined training in digital technologies as part of the Coalition Government’s investment in the Australian Cyber Security Growth Network &lpar;AustCyber&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An initiative to better equip Australian high school teachers to teach digital security skills to students across the country will receive over &dollar;600&comma;000 in the first round of the Government’s AustCyber Projects Fund&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Developed by the University of Sydney and Australia’s banking sector&comma; this is one of seven industry-led grant recipients to share in almost &dollar;3 million&period; ANZ&comma; CommBank&comma; NAB&comma; Westpac and British Telecom with participate in the project&comma; which will directly address part of the Digital Technologies stream of the Australian Curriculum&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Minister for Jobs and Innovation Senator Michaelia Cash said the increasing importance of cyber security for businesses and governments around the world opens career paths for students in Australia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Turnbull Government is ensuring Australians are skilled and Australian businesses are well-positioned to take advantage of the burgeoning global cyber security market&comma; with its &dollar;30&period;5 million investment in AustCyber&comma;” Minister Cash said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Government is supporting innovative projects that address workforce development&comma; education&comma; and detection and defensive technology needs to make sure Australia can realise the full potential of our globally competitive digital economy&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Other projects to receive funding include&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li><b>WithYouWithMe<&sol;b> will identify&comma; train and add 75 new students into the Australian cyber security industry&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b>Fifth Domain<&sol;b> and partners&comma; Canberra Institute of Technology and ANU&comma; will produce a learning management system for education organisations&comma; students and employers to collaborate in developing the cyber security workforce of the future&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b>Deception&period;ai<&sol;b> will conduct an export commercialisation of its cyber security product and document this to assist other Australian start-ups seeking to sell their products overseas&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b>Cybermerc <&sol;b>will build a next-generation Intrusion Detection System with La Trobe University&comma; Optus and deception&period;ai&comma; reducing the exposure time for sophisticated cyber actors inside networks&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b>QuadIQ<&sol;b> will build an intelligent IT system to reduce the time required to complete security vetting of people working in high-trust environments&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b>Vault Systems<&sol;b> will build&comma; with Quintessence Labs&comma; the world’s first secure and scalable package for enterprise file synchronisation and sharing systems&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;

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