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Cyber security is no longer the responsibility of the IT professional – it must be engineered into a project from the start. There’s a growing belief that every engineer should have some cyber security expertise. When she was taking advice on Cyber Security curriculum development from experienced Australian Defence Department staff who were part of her advisory committee, Professor Jill Slay AM was handed a challenge. Defence felt cyber security should become an engineering discipline. All of the standards around cyber security had previously been defined through an applied computing or information systems lens. But Defence saw the challenge as a greater ...