Two post-mortem reports on the Australian census controversy have criticized the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the project's technology provider IBM and "poor government oversight for contributing to the DDoS attack," CSO reports. Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cyber Security Alastair MacGibbon wrote Review of the Events Surrounding the 2016 eCensus while the Senate Economics Committee issued their own study. "Poor preparation for the cybersecurity aspect of the operation was flagged as a chronic problem, with incident management documents held to be manifestly inadequate," the report states. "Poor links between the ABS and its support mechanisms, the Minister’s office and the public were also flagged, with unclear escalation thresholds, obligations, and cross-agency coordination mechanisms." Editor's Note: In an piece for Privacy Perspectives, Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, considered the lessons learned from the Australian census controversy. 
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