Defining the threats to the business and actively protecting against them.
Overview
It’s imperative to have measures in place to protect your data and your customers’ data.
There’s too many heartbreaking stories of people losing everything from scams, hackers, phishing, malware, viruses, and other threats.
So if you’ve been putting this off, stop procrastinating. The bad guys aren’t. The good news is, there’s a lot of great information and help available now.
This is a place to keep anything related to the ‘technical’ aspects of managing your cybersecurity:
- What is your overall plan and is it active?
- Does your type of business have a higher risk profile?
- What devices and software will you rely on?
- Do you need to organise some professional advice?
Exceptions
This is for your overall cybersecurity plan, the devices or software involved are managed elsewhere (e.g. a firewall in 14.13, antivirus software in 14.32).
Also see
For the human side of things, see 14.43 Behavioural cybersecurity.
Links
- A cybersecurity checklist from the Australian Government.
- Advice on how to protect yourself online from the Australian Cyber Security Centre.
- CyberWardens, an Australian initiative to help protect small businesses from online threats.
- ScamWatch, the website of the Australian National Anti-Scam Centre.
- IDCARE, Australia and New Zealand’s national identity & cyber support service.