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Blog, Enterprise IT, Featured - Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:06 - 20 Comments
Future IT project fail?
NSW Police gets COPS replacement funding
blog If you’ve been following state government IT in Australia for as long as I have, it starts to get easier and easier to see major IT project failures before they even happen. And NSW Police just popped up a doozy.
Those of you with some familiarity with how the NSW Police functions will know that for most of the past seventeen years, much of its core policing work has been been done with the aid of a text-only data entry and retrieval system dubbed ‘COPS’, which is a typical police database system in that it allows officers to enter and retrieve information about crimes, suspects etc. Every modern police force has one of these systems, and usually there are many satellite links into such platforms so that associated systems can pull data out.
The COPS system in use by the NSW Police is particularly ancient, dating back about 15 years. We know this because in September 2011, the agency noted that it (with the assistance of Fujitsu) had completed a major upgrade to the then 15-year-old platform that had layered a web-based interface on top of the system. The COPS platform is drastically simpler, but you could draw an analogy with the way modern banks tend to work, where their Internet banking platforms accesses by consumers are layered on top of multiple systems, underneath which often sits an archaic core banking platform dating back decades. Continue…
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Hacked? NSW Education in major outage
news The NSW Department of Education and Communities has confirmed it has suffered a major event in its IT operation this week that knocked key staff services such as email offline, with an an unverified source claiming it had been hacked and suffered the deletion of thousands of accounts.
The department is one of the largest employers in NSW, with about 100,000 staff listed in its 2012 annual report, including some 61,000 school teachers and a further 10,000 more working in TAFE colleges across the state. It daily serves the needs of around 750,000 school students and several hundred thousand more TAFE students. Because of this, the department is also one of the largest buyers and users of technology goods and services nationally.
On Tuesday night, Delimiter received an anonymous tip stating that DEC had been “hacked”, with approximately 139,000 accounts deleted”. The tipster stated that this meant that the department was unable to conduct staff authentication of accounts into its systems, meaning teachers would be locked out of teaching resources and central departmental staff out of management resources. Continue…
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The Greens have brought the bill as community fears have constantly grown both in Australia and globally over the past several years as a series of leaks and government disclosures have revealed how law enforcement agencies are increasingly using telecommunications interception practices to gather data on residents of their own countries, as well as those overseas.
The use of this information is currently skyrocketing in such law enforcement organisations. According to the latest Telecommunications Interceptions and Access Act (TIA) annual report, Australian law enforcement agencies were granted access to personal information about Australians 293,501 times throughout the 2011-12 year, without obtaining a warrant or having any judicial oversight. Continue…
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