Australia Fended Off Nearly 1 billion Cyberassults on Census Day

Australia’s Bureau of Statistics (ABS) thwarted nearly one billion cyberattacks on its systems during the nation’s census in August 2021, statistician Dr. David Gruen stated during the Melbourne Business Analytics Conference last week.

According to Dr. Gruen, after the 2016 distributed denial of service assaults that caused the first digital census to be taken offline by the ABS for 40 hours, every necessary precaution was taken to guard the census and its data.

“In the event, everything ran smoothly even though there were slightly less than one billion cyber attacks on our Census digital system on Census day, 10 August 2021,” Gruen stated.

Australia’s second-ever digital census was conducted from 28 July 2021 to 1 October 2021, and during that time the public-facing systems were under constant attack.

ABS collaborated with the Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC), Pricewater

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