About AISA

The Australian Information Security Association (AISA) works to advance the digital security and safety of Australians and Australia.

AISA is Australia’s largest and most trusted cyber security peak body. With a membership of 13,000+ people, AISA is dedicated to industry capacity building and providing a national voice about what is needed in policy and law to effectively defend Australians from cyberattacks, including ways to improve digital privacy.

As the nationally recognised peak body for cyber security professionals, the Australian Information Security Association (AISA) champions the development of a robust information security sector by building the capacity of professionals, advancing the cyber security and safety of the Australian public as well as businesses and governments.

AISA also provides a voice in national discussions about what is needed in policy and law to most effectively defend Australians from cyberattacks, including ways to improve digital privacy.

We view digital security and safety as a 'public good,' like other public goods such as clean air and reliable water supply. Ensuring all members of the Australian community can enjoy this public good drives our many activities. These include:

• Practical training as well as opportunities for specialist knowledge-sharing among our membership at our conferences and SecDays in order to ensure a workforce that is up to date in a fast-moving field;
• Public outreach, such as public education campaigns for young people at festivals in schools;
• Free online tools to help Australians and their organisations;
• Research to facilitate best practice, such as the studying the impact of new or changing technologies on Australian cyber security and the needs of those who both work in and employ staff in cyber security to do their jobs well;
• Advocacy and information on ways to improve Australia's cyber security and digital privacy, to governments as well as industries;
• Mentoring in order to help small to medium sized organisations with fewer resources than large corporations to 'skill-up' in cyber security while also addressing the national skills shortage in this field;
• Specialist news access for our members so they can follow and act on data breaches and other important cyber security events;
• Innovative forums to share learning, knowledge, skills, experience, ideas and innovation in the information security and privacy field;
• Help to organisations to reduce identity theft, financial crimes, fraud, unauthorised access to information systems and the data they contain.

AISA provides support for all domains in information security and privacy with a particular focus on sharing expertise from the field at meetings, focus groups and networking opportunities around Australia.

We champion the development of a robust information security sector by building the capacity of professionals to help the entire Australian community including the Australian public, businesses and governments.