The Department of Parliamentary Services has said its systems were not down because of an attack, but because it took systems offline to protect them.
The Australian Department of Parliamentary Services has said its March outage was a result of a « deliberate choice » to shut down its mobile device management (MDM) system after it saw an attempted intrusion on the parliamentary network. « The attack did not cause an outage of the DPS systems. DPS shut down the MDM system. This action was taken to protect system security while investigation and remediation were undertaken, » DPS said in response to Senate Estimates Questions on Notice. « To restore services, DPS brought forward the rollout of an advanced mobile services solution that replaced the legacy MDM. The new solution provides greater security and functionality for mobile devices. This rollout was a complex activity and extended the outage experienced by users.
