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Insider threats are among the most dangerous cyber threats out there. Yet, organisations of all sizes seem to be either reluctant or negligent when it comes to fighting them. Even though some companies have an insider risk management program, they have a limited cyber security budget for mitigating insider risk.

To succeed in today's modern competitive business landscape, you need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your employees. This will equip you to identify areas where employees may need further training, including cyber security awareness.

Data breaches have become more common in recent years, owing primarily to the rapid emergence of new threats. According to a new study, the average cost of a data breach increased 2.6% from 2021 to 2022.*

In today's digital world, safeguarding your organisation's online assets is critical. Unfortunately, poor password hygiene practices by some employees cause problems for many small businesses, leaving them vulnerable to hackers.

As the business world becomes increasingly digitised, you’ll have to tackle several dangers that come with doing business online. Cyber criminals nowadays have several methods to target organisations, from credential hacks to sophisticated ransomware attacks.

Many small businesses make the mistake of skipping policies. They feel that things don’t need to be so formal. They’ll just tell staff what’s expected when it comes up and think that’s good enough.

Few things invoke instant panic like a missing smartphone or laptop. These devices hold a good part of our lives. This includes files, personal financials, apps, passwords, pictures, videos, and so much more.

Phishing. It seems you can’t read an article on cybersecurity without it coming up. That’s because phishing is still the number one delivery vehicle for cyberattacks.

The IT infrastructure keeps witnessing changes due to new trends and practices. As such, there is a need to create a balance in the organisation’s IT and adapt to newer technologies. One of these is password security. For decades, the accepted authentication form for many organisations has been using passwords and usernames.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) fatigue (also known as MFA prompt spamming) is a relatively new term that has become more prevalent following the recent news of the LAPSUS$ and Microsoft hack attacks.

Credential theft is now at an all-time high and is responsible for more data breaches than any other type of attack.

Smartphones and tablets are often the preferred device for communications, web searching, and accessing many types of apps. They are more portable and can be used from anywhere.

Approximately 34% of businesses take a week or longer to regain access to their data and systems once hit with a malware attack.

Our Netcare purpose is to provide technology success to our clients so that they are more productive and more secure.

Nearly half of Australian companies suffered a cyber attack within the past 12 months - an increase of 33% over the previous year.

Tech has been fantastic for businesses in many ways, allowing them to enhance productivity and reach new customers. However, the increasing reliance on tech also has its downsides - namely, the risk of downtime is a huge threat to businesses.

It used to be the case that companies only needed to worry about securing their office's four walls. Back in those days, employees worked on computers that were bound to their desks. The only way for a cybercriminal to launch an attack was to somehow get into the company network.

SaaS has given many significant benefits over the years... and challenges as well. SaaS security and management has become critically important that if left unchecked, can cause productivity loss, recovery, and legal costs to name a few to our clients.

No matter what else is going on in the cybersecurity world, it seems that phishing is always the number one topic. This is because it’s still the main conduit used to spread a wide variety of different attacks.

In today’s security climate threats have only become more sophisticated. They use machine learning and artificial intelligence to seek out areas of vulnerabilities in networks and devices and spread rapidly.

One of the main reasons that people use on-premises software hosted on their own server is because they feel it’s more secure to have complete control. Their data is onsite, accessible online, or offline.

The Internet is getting faster allowing businesses to implement cost-effective cloud hosted applications, rich media solutions and VoIP.
But it's also the case that the Internet is getting more dangerous. Hardly a day goes by now without the news media reporting another serious cyber security breach.

The average employee in Australia has to juggle 66 different passwords. This makes it nearly impossible for them to make all those passwords strong and unique while still remembering them.

In this article, we have summarised a guide developed by ACSC to help small businesses protect themselves from the most common cyber security incidents.