Queensland organisations can use the public-sector cyber strategy as context for thinking about resilience, but should not mistake it for a private-sector compliance rule. The Queensland Government’s Cyber Security Strategy 2025–2027 sets out whole-of-government priorities around resilience, workforce and governance.^1 It describes the government’s approach to protecting public-sector information, digital infrastructure and services. Businesses can consider the themes, then set controls appropriate to their own risks and obligations.
Distinguish the strategy from a business requirement
A government strategy explains priorities and direction for the public sector. It does not automatically impose the same requirements on private organisations. Businesses should identify their own contractual, regulatory and customer obligations, then use the strategy as a source of context rather than a substitute for that analysis.
Business Chamber Queensland’s 2025 Digital Future of Work survey covered technology in the workplace, including cybersecurity and connectivity infrastructure. Its public report summary provides AI and workforce findings, but the full report requires a download form, and the public material available for this draft does not disclose the cyber survey figures or methodology.^2 The cyber attack rates and preparedness figures repeated in AltTab’s older social post could not be verified from the accessible report materials, so this article does not repeat them.
Review resilience as an operating capability
Resilience means more than buying a security product. Identify the services that must continue, the systems and suppliers they depend on and the people who can make decisions during an incident. Record which business processes are critical, what a disruption would mean and how the organisation would continue or recover.
Review whether responsibilities are clear across executives, technology teams, service providers and other suppliers. Decide who can declare an incident, approve containment actions, communicate with affected people and authorise recovery. Keep contact paths current and ensure that external support arrangements are documented.
Check governance and accountability
Name an owner for security risk and for each important control. Establish how risks are recorded, prioritised, accepted or treated. Set a process for approving exceptions and review them when the business, systems or supplier relationships change.
Governance should give decision-makers enough information to understand what needs attention. A risk register that has no owners or follow-up dates will not show whether action is progressing. Assign each material action an owner, target date and evidence of completion.
Build workforce capability
The Queensland Government strategy identifies workforce as one of its three pillars alongside resilience and governance.^1 For a business, workforce readiness can include role-specific awareness, secure administration practices, incident exercises and clear reporting routes. Choose training that matches the work people do and the systems they use.
Senior leaders and technical staff may need different preparation. Decision-makers should know how to assess business impact and approve priorities. Technical teams need access to current procedures, escalation paths and recovery information. Review whether people can find and use that material when the normal work environment is disrupted.
Test response and recovery
Run an exercise that reflects a plausible incident for the organisation, such as a compromised account, unavailable business application or supplier access concern. Agree the scenario, objectives, participants and boundaries in advance. Record where communication, decision-making, technical containment or recovery depends on an undocumented person or process.
After the exercise, assign practical actions. Review whether backups or recovery procedures are appropriate for the affected services, whether people can access needed contact information and whether supplier responsibilities are understood. A tabletop is a rehearsal, not proof that every technical recovery control will work. Use separate technical tests where required and approved.
Review suppliers and external access
Understand which providers can access systems, what they support, how access is authorised and monitored and how it is removed when work ends. Review dependencies that would affect incident response if a provider were unavailable or compromised. Contractual service boundaries should explain who notifies whom and who leads an investigation.
Turn the strategy themes into owned actions
Resilience, workforce and governance provide a useful structure for review, but each organisation should select actions based on its own operating context. Confirm the applicable requirements, assign owners and test the controls that matter most to critical services.
Read how to review third-party access and what cloud providers do not cover. For AltTab’s current assessment and security operations scope, see cybersecurity services.