Are you ready to be a cyber champion?

The Cyber Champions Network is a community of healthcare professionals who, together, foster a proactive, engaged, and security-conscious healthcare ecosystem. The Network is helping strengthen Australia’s defence and response against cyber threats.

The Cyber Champions Network is a community of Australian healthcare professionals whose collective goal is to uplift cyber awareness and build security culture in individual healthcare provider organisations to, ultimately, build cyber resilience within Australia’s entire healthcare ecosystem.  

Cyber champions represent a range of healthcare disciplines from both the public and private sector, general practice, aged care, secondary and tertiary care, pharmacy, information technology, allied health, nursing, midwifery and more.  

You will regularly come together to learn and discuss cyber security matters that affect healthcare providers and consumers. You will be well supported by the Agency with ongoing training and resources and opportunities to network and share insights with likeminded people.  

Vision

The Cyber Champions Network is a community of health providers who help build the cyber resilience of Australia’s digital health ecosystem and empower a digitally ready workforce.

• Cyber resilience is the ability of a healthcare organisation to bounce back quickly to normal operations should a cyber attack happen.  
• Digitally ready workforce focuses on building the digital and data capacity, competency and maturity of our workforce to benefit consumers.

Mission

Members of the network are cyber champions. Cyber champions come together to learn and discuss cyber security matters that impact health providers and consumers today. They are passionate about a united security culture and model positive cyber behaviours.  

• Security culture is the shared values, attitudes and beliefs towards cyber security within an organisation or community. Security culture drives us to make positive behavioural change.  
• Positive cyber behaviours such the ability to identify cyber threats (e.g., email phishing and malware attacks), creating strong passphrases, recognising cyber responsibilities, reporting events and incidents.

You will receive training and support needed – we want you to be the best cyber champion possible and will help you every step of the way.  

Cyber champions attend mandatory introductory and ongoing training and are active members of the Network. Cyber champions assist in building the security culture of the Australian healthcare sector by advocating strong positive cyber values, attitudes and behaviours within their team, organisation, healthcare discipline, families and communities.  

Being part of the Cyber Champions Network will ensure you are kept up to date with the ever-changing cyber security landscape and are at the ready to act as a first point of contact for any general cyber security questions among colleagues, peers, families and other communities.

The Cyber Champions Network fosters a proactive, engaged, and security-conscious healthcare ecosystem to significantly strengthen Australia’s defence and response against cyber threats.

You will learn leading practice cyber skills to protect yourself, your workplace as well as your families through:

• enhanced security awareness and ongoing sharing of intelligence
• threat identification abilities  
• leading and driving cultural and behavioural change
• achieving a reduction of the likelihood of cyber incidents and data breaches
• improved workplace cyber resilience
• improved and more up-to-date compliance and risk management.