Introduction Australia’s cybersecurity landscape is evolving at a pace that few businesses and public-sector organisations can comfortably manage. It’s a situation marked by three interconnected challenges: a rapidly expanding attack surface, the weaponisation of artificial intelligence (AI), and systemic vulnerabilities in supply chains. These challenges are made more acute by the explosion of internet-connected devices across households and workplaces. This has dissolved the traditional notion of a secure network perimeter as every device, user, and cloud service has become a potential entry point for attackers. Compounding this, AI has armed cybercriminals with the ability to create hyper-realistic...