top tips for protecting your business online oct 13
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You know you should be using more online business services in ‘the Cloud’ but you’re worried about being cyber-scammed? This workshop provides you with the top tips of protecting your online business operations through a few simple and effective cyber-safety steps.TRANSCRIPT
Top tips for protecting your business online
Allison Miller, Vanguard Visions Consulting
Modbury & Salisbury
Session Overview
• Why protect your business online?• Why is now a good time to be doing business
online?• Top tips for protecting your business online• Online cyber-smart business assessment• What will you investigate?• Workshop evaluation
Why protect your business online?
• More business is being done online
• Privacy obligations• Maintain reputation / trust• Protect virtual assets (data)• Multiple users of the one device
Why protect your business online?
Image: IC3 and Computer Use and Safety - http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/IC3/Computer_Use_and_Safety
Why is now a good time to do business online?
Top five industries to fly in 2013 in Australia
Source: Ibis World (2013) –http://www.ibisworld.com.au/about/media/pressrelease/release.aspx?id=304
Internet is a game changer
Source: Deloitte Access Economics Pty Ltd (2013) –http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_AU/au/services/financial-advisory/deloitte-access-economics/05660fd56ab1e310VgnVCM1000003256f70aRCRD.htm
Top tips for protecting your business online
85% of all targeted
cyber intrusions can be prevented
Source: Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions - http://www.asd.gov.au/infosec/top35mitigationstrategies.htm
Australian Department of Defence, Intelligence and Security, Oct 2013
Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
Tip 1:
Install and update your
security software
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Tip 2:
Have a data back-up strategy
1. Assess your level of risk and identify actions to minimise
2. What data needs to be backed up and how often
3. Select an appropriate back-up device/location
4. Set reminds to do your back-ups5. Test that you can use your
backed up data6. Store backed up data away from
its original source
Develop a back-up strategy
Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business Image: The computer revolution: Databases - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Computer_Revolution/Databases/DBMS
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Tip 3:
Assign someone
responsible for network security
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Tip 4:
Set clear policies about
computer/ network use
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Tip 5:
Develop a ‘culture of security’
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Tip 6:
Use and update reputable software
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Tip 7:
Use spam filters
Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business Image: Virtual Private Network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network
Tip 8:
Secure your remote access
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Tip 9:
Be vigilant about selling
online
Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
Tip 10:
Subscribe to cyber-security alert services
staysmartonline.gov.au/alert_service
Do the cyber-smart business assessment
staysmartonline.gov.au/business/home_based_businesses/questionnaire
What will you investigate further?
Workshop evaluation
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