Understanding
Small Business
and Cyber Security
Insights from 2000+ small business owners and their employees
Research reports
To understand the behaviours, attitudes and needs of Australian small businesses, the Cyber Wardens program and content is informed by extensive research. 89 Degrees East conducts regular research for Cyber Wardens and these reports are available here.
Start learning about common cyber hacks and help protect your business today
Have experienced a cyber attack
Personal
cyber attack
Business
cyber attack
Cyber security is the greatest risk faced by small businesses
5 reasons to act now…
Increasing vulnerability of small business
Lack of skills and resources
They aren’t confident in their cyber security practises and have
low maturity of the Essential 8.
Misjudge the threat as technical rather than capability driven
business and are not technology failures.
Cost to small business increasing
Small business face a supply chain lock out
Small business is scared and underprepared
of small businesses are concerned with risk of cyber security to their business.
At every part of the journey, small business lack confidence
- High confidence
- medium confidence
- low confidence
Prepare for cyber risk
Fight a cyber attack
Get help when you need it
Recover from a cyber attack
For half of small businesses cyber security is too hard, prohibitive and complicated to maintain
Demonstrate behaviours consistent with all of the essential 8 cyber security behaviours
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