Cybersecurity

If you weren’t affected by the global IT outage experienced on Friday, you no doubt heard about it on the news. It was big – there were cancelled flights leaving airports in chaos, shopping centres full of confused customers who couldn’t buy anything because payment systems were down. So, what…

One of the most important aspects of keeping your business cyber secure is to maintain continuous vigilance, never lapsing into complacency. An occasional elbow in the ribs helps keep us from drifting away from what can often be a tricky path of maintaining rigorous cybersecurity. Consider this article that elbow…

At Smile IT, we’re strong believers in cyber defences built around structure and frameworks. Keeping your business secure can be daunting and overwhelming – a framework helps guide you towards better protection. One of the more recognised Cybersecurity Frameworks of the last ten years has been NIST, and they have…

The Essential Eight is a set of cybersecurity strategies designed to form a baseline for robust organisational cyber defences. It’s recommended by the ACSC (Australian Cyber Security Centre) and is also something we’re big on here at Smile IT. Why? Because conforming with the Essential Eight strategies is a surefire…

The IT world loves a good acronym, and this couldn’t be more apparent than in the cyber security space. As cybercrime evolves and the solutions to thwarting hackers become more complex and developed, the list of acronyms is growing too.   At the end of the day, what matters most is…

Here’s a sobering stat from IBM: on average it takes a company 197 days to discover they have been hacked. Once discovered, it takes 69 days to contain the breach. That’s a long time. Can you imagine the havoc a hacker can wreak in that period? No wonder the financial…

The costs of a cyber security breach for a business of any size can be extremely high and difficult to absorb. According to the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the financial damage of reported incidents has increased 14% in the last year, averaging at $46,000 per incident for small businesses, $97,200…

Ahhh the holiday season – it’s all office parties, Fiji trips and mad shopping sprees! It’s easy to get carried away in the fun and games of silly season, but in the background the working world still needs to tick over, and one thing you shouldn’t lose focus on is…