As a consultant, it’s crucial to protect your customers’ personal information, your business reputation, and your financial data from cyber threats.

Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting businesses like yours to exploit vulnerabilities and disrupt activities.

Cyber Wardens is an initiative of the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) to help support Australian small businesses lock their digital doors.

Consult Australia is partnering with Cyber Wardens to provide members with this free digital cyber security course.

Enrol in the free Cyber Wardens training today and help protect your business against scams and hackers.

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About the Cyber Wardens course

The Cyber Wardens program is a simple education tool designed to make your small business cyber-safe. Educating your team about cyber threats will help to protect your small business against cyber threats and recover from a cyber attack.

What you'll learn

Course program

Designed for busy small business owners and employees, the program is self-paced and can be completed in your own time.

Cyber Wardens Foundations

The Cyber Wardens Foundations is a short introduction to cyber security that helps you identify the seven cyber security red flags that pose a risk or threat to your small business.

Cyber Wardens Level One

You will be introduced to basic cyber security measures and actions to improve your cyber awareness and help protect your small businesses from cyber threats and attacks.

Join the thousands of Australian small businesses already protecting themselves against cyber threats.

Download your free Cyber Security Action Plan

With easy steps to follow to help protect your small business.

Frequently asked questions

Cyber Wardens is an initiative of the Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia (COSBOA), supported by the Australian Government and an industry alliance led by Telstra, CommBank and the Australian Cyber Security Centre. Our mission is to inspire every Australian small business to train and support their own Cyber Security Warden. We do this by offering quick, accessible and free training to small business owners and employees to help them defend against cyber attacks.

Yes! Taking the Level One Cyber Wardens course is just the first step towards protecting your small business against cyber threats. Once you complete the training, we will keep you updated on new program developments and send cyber safety news and tips for your business.

The Cyber Wardens online course is made for busy small businesses and takes only 45 minutes to complete. No buzz, no jargon - just practical and quick cyber safety solutions to help you and your team protect your business and keep cyber criminals out.

A trained Cyber Warden could save your small business $46,000*

*Figure based on identifying and preventing a single email attack as detailed in the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Cyber Threat Report 2020/21.