Recent statistics indicate that 48% of all cyber-attacks are against the small-medium business sector, with over 60% of businesses going out of business within 6 months of a successful cyber-attack.
Australian businesses are facing increasing cyber-attacks.
Several recent data breaches have highlighted the vulnerable state of most Australian businesses. Hackers & cyber criminals are opportunists and are taking advantage to build their business from the victims of cyber-attacks.
A successful cyber-attack, such as ransomware, or data loss, can be catastrophic for a small-medium business. Not only are there financial impacts, there is reputational damage along with legal & privacy impacts.
The Australian Privacy Principles carry fines of up to $50M for companies, and up to $444,000 for individuals, where a serious or repeated data breach has occurred.
It is now mandatory for companies to comply with the Notifiable Data Breach Scheme for any lost or stolen personally identifiable information.
Protect you patients privacy and your business
Small Robot are an Australian specialist cyber security & technology company with a focus on protecting the small-medium and mid-sized businesses. Our highly experienced team of skilled experts have over 10 years or more of cyber security & data protection experience across businesses of all shapes and sizes.
Our experts constantly research hacker techniques, and develop solutions to protect, detect and neutralise threats or data loss. Our industry best solutions are tried and tested against even the most advanced attacks. Small Robot clients benefit from cyber assessments, solution implementation, operational management and ongoing monitoring to keep the business secure and protected.
We have an IT provider, why do we need a specialist Cyber Security company?
A recent study by the Australian Cyber Security Centre found that many businesses rely on their IT provider for security, and these businesses were found to be highly vulnerable to successful cyber-attacks. Due to the sophistication and ‘having to find only one weakness one time’ nature of cyber-attacks, it was identified that specific expertise is required to protect, detect, identify and neutralise attacks. An understanding not only of the technologies in use, but also the attacker tactics, techniques and procedures is needed. This requires a level of knowledge, research and experience that IT providers do not have.
The team at Small Robot regularly research, reverse engineer and identify methods to detect and protect against these ever-evolving attacks. But we don’t stop there, we take the time to understand your business, your practice, and make sure that what we implement is not only secure but is also an enabler of your business success.
Effective & Affordable Security
Most security solutions are made for large enterprise and government. Developing solutions that are both affordable and effective for a smaller business was a key challenge. Small Robot have partnered with Cisco, a global leading security company, to provide enterprise-level security to smaller business at an affordable price point. Our comprehensive solutions cover critical areas such as managed internet, network and phone systems (via Cisco Webex) through to email security, identity & access protection, data loss prevention, as well as endpoint & device security.
Included with our solutions is the management & operations, along with the cyber-security monitoring of your practice 24×7 via our advanced detection & response platform; human analysts augmented by data, tech & AI.
Some step you can take today
Whilst there are many areas of cyber risk in a practice, there are some simple things that you can do today, both as a business and personally, to better protect yourself and your business. Simple steps such as not reusing passwords across different services, not sharing passwords or credentials, and ideally leveraging Password Managers to create, remember and sign into your services. Password Managers are often free to use for small amounts of users.
Another simple step is to secure your identities using two-factor (2FA) or the more secure multi-factor authentication (MFA); Microsoft 365 can do this out of the box, as can many other services. Whilst we have more robust, user-friendly and advanced solutions, this is a good first step.
With the rise in volume and sophistication of cyber-attacks, there is no time like the present to take the opportunity to protect your practice’s future. The team at Small Robot are proud to be supporters of ADAWA, and we are here to provide our expertise and assistance in protecting and powering your practice’s resilience and success. A secure and successful business future for your practice is our business success.
Contact the team today via [email protected],
or call us on 1300 870 702
