The review, which was announced in late March, closed on May 8.

The ACS believes removable media and storage devices, VoIP, public wireless hotspots, instant messaging, online gaming and the commercialization of vulnerability research will present major security threats in Australia.

"Current e-security measures won't adequately protect Australians as our critical infrastructure, business and financial resources are increasingly migrated to the Internet," according to ACS president Philip Argy.

"We believe it is essential that in the review, the government considers methods such as behavior blocking, virus throttling, protocol anomaly protection and generic exploit blocking to protect governments, businesses and the community.

"End users are the weakest link in the e-security framework, because of diverse ways people can now connect to corporate and government networks. The home user also faces increasing threats, as they are being enticed to upgrade to broadband connections without being educated about the need to implement significantly better firewall and virus protection systems for their always-on connections."