The National Office of Cyber Security (NOCS') Playbooks are an initiative under Shield 4 of the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy. The Playbooks are high level guides that outline:
- how the NOCS will coordinate the national response
- consequence management activities for a cyber incident impacting an entity in the sector
- how the NOCS will support the impacted entity, government and broader industry response.
Impacted entities should report cyber incidents to ASD before telling the NOCS. To report a cybercrime or a cyber security incident, visit the ReportCyber website.
The playbooks are living documents that the NOCS have developed in consultation with key government and industry stakeholders. We will review them routinely and update them following incidents, exercises and feedback.
We will develop more Playbooks in consultation with government and industry stakeholders and add will add them below. For more information about the Playbooks, contact the NOCS at NOCS.OperationalPlanning@homeaffairs.gov.au.
Incident Response Playbooks
- Communications Sector Playbook (341KB PDF)
- Data Storage or Processing Sector Playbook (256KB PDF)
- Defence Industry Sector Playbook (242KB PDF)
- Energy Sector Playbook (359KB PDF)
- Financial Sector Playbook (248KB PDF)
- Food and Grocery Sector Playbook (359KB PDF)
- Health Sector Playbook (251KB PDF)
- Higher Education and Research Sector Playbook (276KB PDF)
- Professional Services Sector Playbook (247KB PDF)
- Space Technology Sector Playbook (249KB PDF)
- Transport Sector Playbook (260KB PDF)
- Water and Sewerage Sector Playbook (255KB PDF)