Australians should prepare for online services to go down unexpectedly as threats rise, cyber agency warns
THE SO WHAT
A national cyber agency telling citizens to expect outages is a shift from prevention to resilience—AI-enabled attackers are now treated as a persistent condition, not an anomaly. Operators should assume periodic disruption and invest in graceful degradation, offline fallbacks, and tested incident playbooks.
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