Original article by Michael Read
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 10 : 17-Sep-25

The head of the Australian Defence Force’s cyber and space operations, Lieutenant General Susan Coyle, addressed the Financial Review Cyber Summit yesterday. Coyle warned that Australia is already at war in the cyber domain; she added that although the nature of war has not changed, the technology to wage war is changing. Coyle noted that Australia will be vulnerable if it does not secure the cyber domain, given that the nation’s critical infrastructure and the ADF’s own military equipment are reliant on it. Alastair MacGibbon from CyberCX in turn warned that devices connected to a hostile ‘totalitarian state’ could be weaponised, including household energy storage batteries and electric vehicles.

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