As long as businesses have been operating, they have been vulnerable to criminal interference and attacks. Today, the majority of these attacks have moved online, with data breaches costing Australian businesses over $3 million, costing the economy over $1billion each year and affecting 78% of small businesses in 2019 alone....
Why Would Hackers Target a Small Business?
As managed IT service providers, we often get asked if it’s worth investing in IT security as a small or medium-sized business – after all, don’t hackers target banks, healthcare organisations and big businesses like eBay, PlayStation, Facebook and Garmin? While these are the attacks that make news headlines, smaller...
Understanding Ransomware and How to Prevent It
Ransomware is one of the fastest-growing and most dangerous threats to organisational and individual data security, and it’s essential that all businesses have barriers in place to prevent these attacks. Here’s a useful guide to what ransomware is and how your organisation can prevent it. What is Ransomware? This is...
Enhancing End User Cyber Awareness to Protect Your Organisation
Cybersecurity dominates today’s headlines. Businesses, governments, and others face an ever-multiplying array of threats from across the globe. Some come from cyber criminals eager to access treasure troves of useful data from personal information to company or government secrets. Cyber terrorists exist to disrupt and destroy. From power grids to...
Understanding the Dark Web and Its Risks
The dark web is a corner of the internet that has passed into folklore. Shrouded in secrecy and associated with all manner of unsavoury activities, this area of the world wide web is one that all of us have heard of, and yet very few of us truly understand. Let's...