The New Zealand government should spend more money on cyber security and building awareness around it than it is doing currently. However, such spend should be validated only after an accurate assessment of the costs of security lapses to the New Zealand economy.
NetSafe and antimalware vendor AVG have released the results of a recent Cyber Security Survey. According to a statement from NetSafe and AVG announcing the results, "the survey is the first of its kind undertaken in this country to quantify New Zealanders’ perceptions of online safety and their use of protection mechanisms for their online activities."
Top of Martin Cocker's list for 2011 is managing privacy obligations, “especially with reference to the use of cloud computing, and the growing use of social networking in larger organisations.”