NZ govt asks industry for help to stem security breaches

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IT security firms have been asked to put themselves up for membership of a special-purpose panel to provide security services across all of government.

The move is partly in response to a number of recent incidents involving privacy and security breaches at government agencies, commissioning agency the Department of Internal Affairs says. It sees the panel arrangement as a way of ensuring more consistency in security “skills and techniques” provided to agencies.

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