On Friday the 4th of November, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) released their third Annual Cyber Threat Report, which offers insights gained from July 2021 to June 2022. The report “provides an overview of key cyber threats impacting Australia, how the ACSC is responding to the threat environment, and crucial advice for Australian individuals and organisations to protect themselves online.”
The 74-page document analyses data from reports that have been sent to ReportCyber throughout the financial year, with involvement from the ACSC, the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, Defence Intelligence Organisation, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, and the Department of Home Affairs.
In their executive summary, the ACSC describes Australia’s current threat landscape and five key cyber trends:
The report goes into more depth, however, here’s a quick re-cap of the 5 key takeaways:
How to protect yourself
The ACSC makes the following recommendations for Australian citizens:
How to protect your business
The ACSC makes the following recommendations for Australian organisations:
To help organisations stay more secure, we’ve also recently released a 10-Step Cybersecurity Checklist, which offers ten simple tips to help you review your business prepare in the case of an attack and build on your cyber-resilience.
You can download the checklist for free here.
Keeping businesses safe and secure
Prevention is always better than a cure, and the best defence is to encourage businesses to proactively boost their company’s cyber resilience levels to avoid threats landing in inboxes in the first place. The fact that a staggering 94% of malware attacks are delivered by email, makes email an extremely important vector for businesses to fortify.
No one vendor can stop all threats, so it’s crucial to remind customers that if they are using Microsoft 365 or G Suite, they should also have a third-party email security specialist in place to mitigate their risk. For example, using a third-party cloud email solution like MailGuard.
Our email filtering solutions are recommended by AustCyber - The Australian Cyber Security Growth Network Ltd and defend against advanced attacks up to 48 hours ahead of the rest of the market.
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