While Nairn considers the findings timely, he said it also highlights some issues surrounding areas of governance, processes and security technology in government agencies.

These area are critical, the minister said, for agencies to rollout the proposed e-Government strategy.

Six Australian government agencies have come under fire from ANAO for their lax security.

Dubbed the Internet Security in Australian Government Agencies report, it found 31 specific risks -- as defined by the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) -- in agency Web servers.

Three percent of risks were high level, 32 percent were medium level and 65 percent of risks were low-level risks. The ANAO made 51 suggestions for improvements.