Cyber attacks continue to pose a serious threat to business in Australia, with the Australian Cyber Security Centre revealing over 15,000 cybersecurity incidents affecting business were recorded from June 2015 to June 2016 and ACORN* reporting over one billion dollars of self-reported losses for individual and small businesses. Whether it is through hacking a browser, cyber espionage, small businesses are particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks. Just about every Cloud Access Security Broker will do this: audit the current use of a wide variety of cloud IT so that a business or organization can understand how much shadow IT they have.
Key Takeaways:
- Cyber attacks continue to pose a serious threat to business in Australia, with the Australian Cyber Security Centre revealing over 15,000 cyber security incidents affecting business were recorded from June 2015 to June 2016.
- All organisations, irrespective of size, are reliant on information and data to run their businesses. This creates an opportunity for criminals, who target this information as a means to extort money from businesses, both big and small, ensuring the need for owners to secure their business’s data is imperative.
- Further, in a services-based economy, many small businesses work with larger ones, making them a target due to the information they have access to and manage, or alternatively as a back-door entry to another larger target.
“The second step can be harder: creating and enforcing a policy so that shadow IT becomes normal IT. Like all security, it is a mix of people, processes and technology.”
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