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....
6 Qualities of a Secure Email Service
269 billion emails are sent each day, flooding business inboxes with everything from marketing material and co-worker correspondence to sales queries and spam. No matter what industry you’re in or the size of your business, each person in your team relies extensively on this single tool to stay updated, connected...
These Cybersecurity Issues are Critical for Remote Teams
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, remote working was on the rise. Today, it is expected to continue well into 2021 and beyond. Along with offering great benefits to employees and employers alike, remote working comes with some key challenges – especially in terms of cybersecurity. Here are the 5 most...
What’s the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?
Disaster recovery and business continuity may seem like the same thing, but they have some important differences that impact how a business bounces back after a significant IT event. Generally, a business continuity plan focusses on keeping a business operational throughout a disaster using a set of predefined protocols and...
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...