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ASD is rethinking Australia's core cyber security baseline. As an accredited Essential Eight auditor, here's our plain-language take. This October is Cyber Security Action Month, part of the Australian Signals Directorate's first Cyber Action Year. It's a year built around moving from awareness to action, and planning on the assumption that a compromise will happen…

Personal devices are the security boundary your business doesn't control, but should. Your business is only as secure as your bookkeeper's phone. Quick gut check: does anyone on your team check work email from their personal phone, or log into a shared drive from their home laptop while the kids are watching TV? If you…

The scam costing Australian businesses the most isn't the one you're picturing. Ask most business owners what a cyber scam looks like and they'll describe something obviously wrong: bad spelling, a dodgy link, an email from a stranger. Business email compromise (an attacker taking over or convincingly impersonating a real mailbox to redirect a payment)…

The real AI risk to your business isn't the one making headlines. If you've seen a headline this year about AI "autonomously" hacking into companies or discovering software flaws on its own, you'd be forgiven for picturing a machine quietly working its way through your firewall while you sleep. Read past the headline and the…

Every business wants to prevent security incidents. Do not get breached. Do not get ransomware. Do not lose data. Prevention is the ideal. Except prevention alone does not work. Despite sophisticated defences, security measures that should stop attacks and staff training, incidents still happen. They happen to well resourced organisations with dedicated security teams. They…

Almost every Tasmanian business has backups. They run automatically overnight. Files are copied somewhere. Servers are duplicated. If something goes wrong, you restore from backup. Except a lot of backups do not work when they are needed. Backup systems give false confidence. They make you feel protected when you are actually exposed. The moment you…

Remote work is not temporary anymore. It is how Tasmanian businesses operate now. Staff work from home offices, coffee shops and hotel rooms. They access business systems from personal devices. They work on public wifi networks. Your business infrastructure is not confined to your office anymore. This creates security challenges that traditional IT security approaches…

Most Tasmanian businesses do not have a formal incident response plan. They are too busy running operations to sit down and document what they would do if something went wrong. The irony is that the busier you are, the more critical it becomes to have a plan ready before you need it. When a security…

Cyber insurance has become increasingly common among Australian SMEs, and that's largely a good thing. Having cover in place means that if a significant incident occurs, there's financial support for recovery. For businesses that rely heavily on their systems and data, that's a meaningful safety net. The problem is when cyber insurance starts to replace…