Cyber Security Systems That Keep Your Data & Systems Protected
Cyber security is a growing concern for businesses worldwide. The impact cybercrime has on your business could be detrimental, resulting in revenue loss, reputation damage, business disruption, productivity loss and equipment damage. While there are many forms of cyberattacks, the top 3 affecting Australian businesses are phishing, ransomware and malware.
No matter your business size, everyone, especially small-to-medium businesses, are at risk and need IT security solutions. Although you may think “they won’t go for me when they can attack larger organisations for a greater return”; this is a big misconception. Cyber criminals don’t discriminate. They prefer to target smaller business as they are likely to have a weaker cyber security defence.
Our cyber security solutions in Cairns and Townsville can help in 3 ways:
Strengthen User Cyber Awareness
Reduce Risk
Protect your Data & Systems
8 Cyber Security Essentials to Secure Your Business
There’s a lot to consider when protecting your business from cybercrime and it can be difficult to know where to start. We recommend adopting the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s (ACSC) Essential Eight mitigation strategies. These 8 mitigation strategies provide a guide for businesses of all sizes to fortify their cyber security measures and defend themselves against cyber threats.
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Cyber Essentials
Level 1
A good starting point for small businesses – improve your cyber security with a basic strategy.
Cyber Essentials
Level 2
The recommended minimum for all businesses – additional controls and forensic capabilities to help identify the cause of a cyber breach.
Cyber Essentials
Level 3
Recommended for businesses with highly sensitive data and regulatory obligations, such as councils, government, banks, and larger organisations for complete alignment with the ACSC Essential 8 cyber security controls.
What is the Essential Eight? Download Your FREE Guide
The Essential Eight is a great place to start strengthening your cyber security posture. To make it easier, we’ve broken down each of the 8 mitigation strategies in our eBook: 8 Cyber Essentials to Safeguard Your Business. Download your FREE copy today to learn how you can protect your business now.
Did you know 97% of data breaches were the result of phishing attacks on Australian business in 2019?
Every day we receive countless emails and are faced with the chance of receiving malicious attacks. And with cybercriminals continually evolving and creating new ways to attack your business, are you confident your team are aware of the warning signs and can keep up?
We’re all human, but when trained on cyber security and having greater awareness, your employees can be one of your best defence measures against cyber threats.
Through our comprehensive Cyber Awareness Platform solution, your business will receive ongoing training, simplified policy management and behavioural risk scores – enabling you to mitigate your organisation’s cyber risk and protect your data.
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EBOOK: Your Ultimate Guide for Driving Employee Cyber Security Awareness
With the rise of cyber threats, your business and people need to be prepared. Start putting protective measures in place for your business by following 6 simple steps outlined in our eBook and provide your people with a pathway to success.
Cyber Security Solutions for Small Business
Cyber-attacks pose a far greater threat to small businesses, so as you’re the most vulnerable, it’s crucial you take every opportunity to increase your company’s protection. Besides training, the Future IT Services cyber security consultants can advise you on the best IT security services available for your business needs.
Managed Services is based around the provision of service to your ICT systems and people. Managed Security is the advanced security systems and strategies we put in place to mitigate risk against cyber attacks.
A Managed Cyber Security solution will significantly reduce the attack surface your network presents to bad actors. By implementing the Essential 8 and increased maturity levels you are reducing the target by magnitudes compared to a business with no strategy and basic protections.
Every business should at least be implementing Essential 8 Maturity Level 1 which includes all 8 Core Controls.
The risks are high if you don’t have a security strategy in place. The common saying in IT is it not a matter of if you are going to be breached it is a matter of when you are going to be breached and how prepared are you in the event of a breach.
The Essential 8 at is very basic maturity level 1 is designed to reduce the opportunistic attacks that happen with unprotected or poorly protected networks. We call them the drive by attacks and are not targeted at anything or anyone specific so means all systems are at risk.
You should discuss this with your professional Managed Service Provider or you can contact us if you don’t have one. We will seek to understand the degree of breach and how/who you need to report this to. The full details of your obligations are listed in this link.
A data breach happens when personal information is accessed or disclosed without authorisation or is lost. If the Privacy Act 1988 covers your organisation or agency, you must notify affected individuals and us when a data breach involving personal information is likely to result in serious harm.
Under the Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) scheme an organisation or agency must notify affected individuals and the OAIC about an eligible data breach.
Yes, if you knowingly have been breached and data lost/stolen then you must report this here to avoid being fined. Fines can range into the millions depending on the breach and what was done to reduce risk prior to breach.
Next Generation Antivirus is based on todays requirements to Detect and Respond to threats using a mix of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, to adapt to novel threats as they arise and do not require definition file updates.
EDR is Endpoint Detection and Response. This is Next Generation protection and is based on todays requirements to Detect and Respond to threats using a mix of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. EDR means you can roll back the device to a pre-infected state, monitor process before, during and after execution to prevent new threats slipping in.
Yes. Providing a Cyber Awareness Platform and arming your staff with the knowledge around what Cyber Risk looks like you have the first line of defence for your business covered. By using the right platform you can assess the capability of your staff and provide tailored training to each individual based on their Human Risk Score.
If you want to see how your business rate today please click this link and we can take you through a Human Risk Report.
You can also visit our resources page for an insight on some of our training.
As a home user you should at least have a First Generation Antivirus that is up to date and a fully patched device. Or even better we can provide a Managed Home User Package that includes Next Generation EDR (Endpoint Detection and Recovery Protection) along with patch management, activity alerting and permission based remote access for assistance should you have an issue.
Provide your staff with a managed device with EDR, Patch Management and ensure that MFA is enabled. If your staff use BYO devices, ensure that they have a good AV solution, their firewall enabled, automatic Windows Patch management enabled and MFA is used for all services. Do not allow unmanaged devices to connect directly to your office network.
All businesses should have a Cyber Security Policy. There be an auditing, insurance or regulatory requirement that stipulates what the policy is and how much detail is required. A Cyber Security Policy will include many different components, and these can vary from detailing how often you patch your devices to who is allowed to order a keyboard.
A Disaster Recovery Policy should exist for all businesses. A good DR policy will document what backups exist, where they are stored and how often they are tested. A DR policy should include the types of scenarios that can be recovered from and the expected downtime and the amount of data loss that can be tolerated. A Business Continuity Plan can be included as part of a DR plan and addresses ‘Whole of Business’ operations but this is not a requirement for an effective DR plan.
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