You know you should be doing more business online and in ‘the Cloud’ but you’re worried about being cyber-scammed.
This presentation explains why now is a good time to be doing business online, along with the top 10 tips for safely running your business online through a few simple and effective cyber-safety steps.
2. 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?
4. • 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
6. Top five industries to fly in 2013-14 in
Australia
Source: Ibis World (July 2013) –
http://www.ibisworld.com.au/media/2013/07/10/52/
7. 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
9. Source: Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions - http://www.asd.gov.au/infosec/top35mitigationstrategies.htm
Australian Department of Defence, Intelligence and Security, Oct 2013
10. Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
11. Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
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12. 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-ups
5. Test that you can use your
backed up data
6. 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
13. Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
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14. Why having a strong password makes sense
Source: Stay Smart Online Alert Service 23 Oct 2013 - http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/alert_service/alerts/how_strong_is_your_password_sso_alert_priority_low
Password length Time taken
6 2 seconds
7 3 minutes
8 5.5 hours
9 3 weeks
10 5.4 years
11 515 years
12 48 millennia
20 324 billion billion years
18. Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
Image: Frederick Hermann - Just like the Nest with a more connected world all the devices need software updates now. Your TV, DVD player, watch, thermostat etc didn't used to ask for constant
19. Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
26. I-CAN Approach
Image: “Punk Einstein thinks you can do it” by Quinn Dombrowski - www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/7593700788/
I - Implement a strategy
27. I-CAN Approach
Image: “Punk Einstein thinks you can do it” by Quinn Dombrowski - www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/7593700788/
I - Implement a strategy
C – Coach / Community/
Committee
28. I-CAN Approach
Image: “Punk Einstein thinks you can do it” by Quinn Dombrowski - www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/7593700788/
I - Implement a strategy
C – Coach / Community/
Committee
A – Appreciative inquiry
29. I-CAN Approach
Image: “Punk Einstein thinks you can do it” by Quinn Dombrowski - www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/7593700788/
I - Implement a strategy
C – Coach / Community/
Committee
A – Appreciative Inquiry
N – New skill development
30. “Be Ahead of the Pack”
Business Development Program
Available from: http://vanguardvisions.com.au/ebusiness-services/be-ahead-of-the-pack-business-development-packages/
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What did you find out about your business?
http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business/home_based_businesses/questionnaire
Getting started takes time.
The I-CAN approach can help you to implement the right cyber smart processes for your business
Start by implementing a strategy.
This happens by setting yourself some goals with milestones, together with determining how you are going to resource the implementation of these goals.
You will also need to determine how you are going to track and measure whether you have achieved these goals, and whether the goals have helped improve your business processes or productivity.
Once you know what you are trying to achieve, what will help you stay on track?
If you are a small business, you might engage a coach to help you or your community (or network). In larger organisations, it many need the involvement of a few people or a committee to plan, implement, monitor and review the implementation process.
When implementing a new business process, you will need to evaluate the skills required to do it successfully.
Undertaking an appreciative inquiry of your staff will help you know what skills you will need, and review whether you currently have those skills in your business or whether you’ll need to recruit someone with these skills.
It may be best to outsource some of this work to a virtual assistant or a micro-worker through online sites like O-Desk, eLance and Freelancer.
This process may also be an opportunity to undertake a Workforce Development planning process for your whole business so you can strategically ensure you have the skills within your business to reach the longer term goals of your business.
If you decide that you would like to learn the new skills yourself or have someone in your organisation learn these skills, then you will need to determine how this is going to happen, ie:
Experiential – through trial and error, using the help functions within the system, and drawing on the expertise of your network
How-to – look for a how to video or resource online or reading reviews/blog posts
Workshops/Webinars – engage an expert or attend some training or do a course