{"id":315058,"date":"2026-03-05T23:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315058\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:54:07","slug":"new-zealands-cyber-security-maturity-highly-variable-gcsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315058\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s cyber security maturity highly variable \u2013 GCSB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo, everyone has a part to play,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past year we\u2019ve strengthened our engagement with critical infrastructure providers, who are becoming higher profile targets for malicious actors. Consultation with these key organisations is now underway about potential cyber security regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Clark conceded not all organisations which held very sensitive personal information had the right levels of cyber security in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is a missing piece at the moment, is the right incentives for organisations holding highly sensitive data to have the right levels of cyber security in place to be able hold that really sensitive information,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing that was part of the action plan for the latest cyber security strategy which raised the issues of privacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder this element of cyber security strategy we will work with other agencies to put up advice around what we think needs to change,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n<p>He added other similar countries had already put such incentives in place as the goal posts<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead Clark said the rapid pace of technology development was going to present both security challenges and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are already seeing this with AI, but expect this to also happen in the areas of quantum computing and cryptography,\u201d he said. \u201cSome shifts may be hard to predict and could occur at short notice, meaning that we may have to adapt quickly. So being both proactive and agile will be important.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSo, everyone has a part to play,\u201d he said. \u201cOver the past year we\u2019ve strengthened our engagement with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-315058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}