Queensland will devote $40 million to critical system upgrades and try to make it easier for state and local agencies to buy security technology as part of a sweeping plan to harden the state’s cyber defences.

The measures are among a raft of initiatives outlined in the state’s cyber security strategy 2025-2027 , which was released overnight.

A spokesperson for Queensland’s Minister for Customer Services and Open Data, Steve Minnikin, said that the government would pay for the critical upgrades out of a pool money it specifically set aside for cyber security initiatives in its 2024-25 budget. At the same time, it would ensure its business as usual system updates would receive cyber security enhancements paid for out of its existing billion-dollar digital fund.

The state, which has hig

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