The ASD

Australian Signals Directorate

Status Tracked

The Commonwealth's cyber security agency. Services Australia notified it of the OpenAI incident on 15 September, and the government's own standard for agencies reporting incidents to it, the Protective Security Policy Framework, sets no fixed clock, only 'as soon as possible'; on ASD's 2025 figures, only 35 per cent of Commonwealth entities reported at least half the incidents they saw.

First tracked: 2026
Last on record: 2026-10-10
Named in: 5 articles
Across: 1 case

Named in 5 articles across 1 case 26 connections: companies 8, mechanisms 3, regulators and bodies 5, agencies and departments 4, police 2, people 4

Key figure on file

"As soon as possible"

The clock the Protective Security Policy Framework sets for a Commonwealth agency reporting a cyber security incident to the Australian Signals Direc…

Articles naming it

Cases it recurs across

Linked in the graph

Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Reporting Rort"As soon as possible"The clock the Protective Security Policy Framework sets for a Commonwealth agency reporting a cyber security incident to the Australian Signals Dir…5 articles →

Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑10‑10Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

"As soon as possible"The clock the Protective Security Policy Framework sets for a Commonwealth agency reporting a cyber security incident to the Australian Signals Directorate. There is no fixed number of hours.Nobody has to tell →
As soon as possibleThe standard the Protective Security Policy Framework and ASD’s own Information Security Manual set for a Commonwealth agency reporting a cyber security incident to ASD. Neither sets a fixed number of hours or days.The inbox checked once a day →

Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑10‑10Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 5 articles that name the ASD, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about the ASD.

Evidence strength · 246 sources across 5 articles

Primary 126
Official 19
Masthead 32
Trade 24
Aggregator 1
Unusable 4
40 not yet graded

Primary: the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official: the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead: a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade: specialist or trade press
Aggregator: republishes others’ work
Unusable: its own sourcing cannot be established

How sources are graded

4 of 5 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

The 12 names most often in the same articles as The ASD. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.

Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑10‑10Auto-assembled