Keeping Your Family Safe Online: Microsoft Family Safety
The IT world is abuzz with information about how to keep your business processes and your clients’ data safe. We hear about firewalls, VPN’s, two-factor authentication, antivirus software… the list goes on. We don’t hear as much about keeping your family safe online. Everyone wants to keep our kids safe…
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Why Brisbane Businesses Should Backup Their Data
Data loss is one of the single biggest threats facing businesses today. Your business and client data is the lifeblood of your business and is of great value to you. In today’s age of cybercriminals, this value makes it vulnerable. It becomes a target of hackers and online miscreants, eager…
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What is a Chief Security Officer?
The role of the Chief Security Officer, or CSO, is growing in importance in Australia. Once reserved for large corporate organisations, today businesses of all sizes are starting to incorporate this role. It’s a sign of the importance of online security, and the growing hyper vigilance around keeping business data…
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Cybersecurity Framework: The Importance of NIST
In terms of cyber security and staying safe online, it’s a jungle out there. Phishing scams are increasing exponentially while ‘hackers for hire’ are using their skills to exploit whatever they can from businesses of all sizes. Throw in a pandemic that’s disrupted where and how people work and we…
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10 Ways to Keep Your Home Office Secure
Working remotely has actually been on the increase for a number of years, with technology and work schedules making it easier and often more suitable. Then along came COVID-19, and suddenly it’s rare to find someone who hasn’t experienced working from home. With the future being a little bit uncertain…
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A Cyber Security Assessment Case Study
Smile IT recently undertook a Cyber Security Assessment for one of our clients, with an aim to evaluate the effectiveness of their cyber defence controls. This case study is designed to provide an idea of how we adapt our assessment approach to individual companies. The aim is to provide relevant…
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A Cyber Security Checklist for Your Company
Cyber security breaches come in all shapes and sizes. Your mind will generally race to images of clandestine geniuses huddling over a computer hacking businesses just for the heck of it. Hackers are definitely a big problem, and they target businesses of all sizes. Don’t think because you’re a SME…
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Business Cyber Security in Australia
Cyber attacks are on the rise and business cyber security in Australia is more important than ever before, whether you’re an SME, an individual or a large corporation. According to the Australian Cyber Security Centre report a cyber crime is reported every ten minutes, with Queensland and Victoria being the most…
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