Australia is building a top-secret cloud to host intelligence data and share it with the US and UK, which have their own clouds built for the same purpose.
AI is another field in which Shearer anticipates collaboration among the Five Eyes nations.
He also expressed doubt that security analysts will embrace AI. Recalling his own time as a junior security analyst, Shearer noted that such workers live in fear that they will miss a crucial piece of information, and won't assume AI will avoid that sort of error.
The intelligence community will therefore need to understand the limitations of AI. Doing so will, again, require collaboration among partners and allies, in his opinion.
Shearer observed that Australia's intelligence community is increasingly engaged with other Southeast Asian nations - sometimes to help them understand the impact of climate change.
Japan, he added, has signalled it intends big changes to its intelligence efforts that align with the goals of the Five Eyes group - which is pleased with that plan.
European powers, too, currently have many of the same priorities as Australia - given Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine and the war in the Middle East.
Those overlapping interests mean more opportunities - indeed imperatives - to share approaches to intelligence, he argued.
This Cyber News was published on go.theregister.com. Publication date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 05:13:05 +0000