Founding a cyber champions club
Small business cyber security risks, part 1: Many of the cyber security professionals around the globe are concerned about third-party risk . What exactly is that, and why should you care? Personally, I like to apply what I consider to be a layer of common sense across these sorts of things, but I feel that I’m very privileged to constantly learn from some of the very best cyber security professionals in Australia and nearby, so perhaps what I assume is common sense is actually their knowledge “bleeding through” me! So let me impart some of that knowledge I’ve accumulated, and hopefully you can benefit from it as I have done. Let’s consider a small business, a hairdressing salon. Typically the team interacts directly with clients of course, although in order to service those clients, there’s very likely a CRM (customer relationship management system) to handle appointments, hold client information, and possibly even manage a pipeline of new clients. Additionally, there’l...