Nick Tate, director of AusCERT, said the annual subscription covers the whole of government.

"They (the government) decided to have a subscription covering all of the government rather than having individual agencies sign up to make it a lot easier," Tate said.

"In essence it is an incident response arrangement, but I imagine more of the work will be providing information about future and current activities and trends as well as advice."

AusCERT is based at the University of Queensland.