Small Businesses

Essential Eight - This is what the Australian Government says you need to start with first.

• https://www.cyber.gov.au/acsc/view-all-content/essential-eight/essential-eight-explained

• https://www.cyber.gov.au/acsc/view-all-content/publications/essential-eight-maturity-model 

Many small businesses don’t even know where to start to even begin to read and understand the Essential Eight though.

Thankfully the ACSC has some better content for Small Businesses, and ID Care have a Small Business Cyber Resilience package funded by the Australian Government which is quite good.

Pre-Steps

• Don’t even start with these steps unless your Business Email and Document storage is in the cloud. It doesn’t matter if it’s Microsoft 365 or GSuite, just get off those servers in the back room.

  • If you don’t like OneDrive or Google Drive for all your documents (I use highly complex Word Documents and I don’t trust either cloud service to not stuff them up), then get Dropbox (Pro or Business) or Box.

Next Steps

See my Small Business Cybersecurity Activation Plan for where to start on your journey to good cybersecurity for your Small Business.