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.

1. vanguardvisionsconsulting.com.au
Top tips for running your business
safely online
3 June 2014
Allison Miller
Director & Principal Consultant

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?

3. Why protect your
business online?

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

5. Why is now a good time
to do business online?

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

8. Top tips for protecting
your business online

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
Image: Hard Disk Drive - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive ; Iomega external hard disk drive - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iomega_external_hard_disk_drive_%28cut%29.JPG

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
Image: Master lock with root password - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Master_lock_with_root_password.jpg

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

15. Strong passwords
Word Password
Tomato-soup T0m8t0-s0up
That’s-a-joke Th8t’s-8’-j0ke
MMYY-Favourite-password 1213-Oranges

16. Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
Image: purple Slog: “Information Security Wordle” http://www.flickr.com/photos/purpleslog/2870445268/

17. Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
Image: Tactical Technology Collective “Title Screen” - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ttc_press/5007644722/

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

20. Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
Image: Virtual Private Network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network

21. Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
Imagine: e-commerce - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E-commerce.jpg

22. Tips from Stay Smart Online http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/business
staysmartonline.gov.au/alert_service

23. Do the cyber-smart
business assessment
staysmartonline.gov.au/business/home_based_businesses/questionnaire

24. Getting started

25. I-CAN approach

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/

31. What will you investigate
further?

32. Want to know more?
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Allison Miller
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