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AustCyber- Cybersecurity and small business as critical infrastructure in Australia

5/8/2020

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As an increasing number of Australian small businesses are working remotely due to the economic shock of COVID-19. They are faced with an increasing volume and variety of malicious cyber-attack. These hacking attempts threaten to disrupt their business in the best case and put them out of business in the worst.
The WA AustCyber Innovation Hub modelled the short-term economic impact of investing $1 million (AUD) into 5000 small businesses in Western Australia over a six-month period.
There is no Cyber Triple Zero phone number to call when a small business falls victim to a cybercrime.
The creation of a Cyber Intervention Emergency Response effort will work to prevent disruption of the critical Australian small to medium enterprise supply chain over a six months period.
12% OF SMALL BUSINESS EXPERIENCE A CYBER EVENT

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CyberCheck.Me 3 minute videos

5/8/2020

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CyberCheck.Me has released 3 minute videos to assist SMEs better secure their business from cyber security risks. The videos were produced by ECU Cyber Security students. The students are now setting about creating 15 minute videos to extend the help.
Professor Craig Valli of ECU says “this is a project that has winners all around, the students get invaluable education and training on delivering presentations not afforded in the regular curriculum. The double down is the SME community gets a resource and the triple threat is that the students are employed to do this, creating employment. It is this sort of grass roots initiative that involves industry, academia and government collaborating to create real impact”
They can be viewed online at the CyberCheck.Me website https://www.cybercheck.me/essentials.html

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Insight into ECU’s Cyber Security Operations Centre

4/8/2020

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The Hon Kim Beazley, Governor or Western Australia was invited to tour the new Cyber Security Operations (CSO) Centre at Edith Cowan University (ECU) Joondalup Campus. Professor Craig Valli, Director, ECU Security Research Institute, Associate Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security) and Professor Andrew Woodward, Executive Dean, School of Science guided the Governor through the Southern Hemisphere’s largest CSO Centre within a university. This state of the art CSO opened on 4th February 2020.

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