As our businesses begin to grow and, for some, change direction this is a good time to look to our staff and continue the building process. There’s an old Japanese proverb which reads: “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” As humans, we’re a pretty resilient species. We live through epidemics, through global disasters, we thrive […]

We’ve all heard the grim statistics that approximately 20 per cent of small businesses fail within the first year. By the end of the second year, 30 per cent of businesses will have failed. And after the fifth year, about half will have failed. It’s statistics like this that show starting and running your own […]

A toolkit jointly funded under the Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) and the ‘Insurance Checkup ’, has been launched to encourage Tasmanian households and business owners to make informed choices when purchasing or reviewing their insurance. Federal Minister for Emergency Management David Littleproud said previous natural disasters have shown the impact of noninsurance and […]

Every year, ransomware attacks become more malicious and 2020 was a goldmine for cybercriminals with nearly 85 per cent of the cyberattacks that Sophos Rapid Response dealt with involving ransomware. In recent months, we’ve seen an increase in ransomware-as-a-service tools being sold to unskilled attackers who are either charged for the toolset or pay a […]

In 2020, organisations went from conventional work arrangements to flexible and fundamentally new ways of working to protect people from the threat of COVID-19. This approach may have protected humans from the virus; however, it created additional headaches for cybersecurity teams looking to protect data and networks. It’s important for organisations to learn from the […]