It's easy to forget how connected we are both at home and at work. As you leave your car in the station car park and jump on the 7.04 a.m. train to Parliament, you'll likely have already used a handful of cloud-based apps to start your working day - anything from Google Suite to Slack. With the rapid pace of change across digital workplaces, the risk of cyber threats continues to escalate. Poor cybersecurity hygiene ...

Australians held their breath last month, captivated by the Matildas advancing to the semi-finals at the World Cup. We all watched in awe as their strong defence showed how structured routines are essential for success. Likewise, cybersecurity requires robust defence to protect your digital assets. As you know, defenders block the opponent's advances, intercept passes, and secure the team's territory. In cybersecurity, firewalls, encryption, and intrusion detection systems act as the defensive line, intercepting and ...

Where is the future of work? Is it fully remote? Is it 100% in the office? Or is it Hybrid? Talking to our clients, it doesn’t appear there is one definitive answer. It’s a matter of what works for your business and client base. We’ll take you through what some of our clients are doing and what are some key considerations to ensure your business has a productive workforce. Can technologies support a hybrid work ...

Not a month goes by without the clear and present danger of another cyberattack on an Australian business. In the last few weeks, millions of Australians have had their data stolen by hackers attacking Latitude Financial.  Many Aussies would be surprised to learn that Latitude Financial held sensitive documents dating as far back as 2005 from the previous owner, GE Capital Finance.  Simple, interest-free purchases made at The Good Guys or JB Hi-Fi have now ...

"ANZ kills cash…" screams the media as the headline is splashed across news sites and your feed. "Why you soon won't be able to withdraw cash…" Is this the end of cash? Are we all expected to now pay contactless with our smartphones or watches? Well, the move to a cashless society continues to gain pace - with only 27% of all transactions completed by cash post-pandemic.  Aside from the convenience of not carrying physical ...

What is Essential 8? The inception of the Essential 8 aimed to foster robust security and operational protocols among Australian government bodies, departments, local councils, and other entities operating in the public domain. Many private enterprises consider the Essential Eight an advantageous starting point for evaluating security measures and establishing a fundamental groundwork for cybersecurity. The custodianship of the Essential Eight is under the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) purview. What are the eight mitigation ...

Have you heard of Bankcard? Before VISA and MasterCard, Bankcard was Australia's answer to credit cards. Bankcard dominated the credit card space for several years, with over five million customers at its peak in 1984.  But in 1986, a dispute arose between the major banks on whether to include Bankcard in their introduction of EFTPOS. At the time, several banks were actively promoting MasterCard leading to the start of Bankcard's demise.  The banks' withdrawal of ...

As organisations want to understand their businesses better, more and more conversations are around Business Intelligence or BI. The more meetings we have around BI, the more we realise that outside a specific scope of existing reports and data, owners and management aren't really sure what other insights they need. So inevitably, the question of how we use Power BI or Google Looker in our business is asked. Here is one way we use Business ...

I'm sure this always happens to you as it does to me. Your father-in-law sends you an email. He has been out that morning off Mornington, fishing. He's "bagged out" on whiting and snapper and wants to share his haul with you. So in his email, he tells you to check out the attached photo.  Except the attachment is missing.  Always.  So you go back and forth until he works out how to attach an ...

Did you know Australians report a cybercrime every 7 minutes?  The surging increase in cyberattacks appears to dominate each news cycle. If you feel like it never stops, new data from the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the Australian Signals Directorate cyber spy agency branch coordinating our response to cybercrime, supports your view. In the most recent reporting period, ACSC received more than 76,000 crime reports. And there only the cybercrimes Aussies chose to report. ...