{"id":65294,"date":"2023-04-04T20:54:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T09:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=65294"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:41:26","slug":"a-cyber-attack-on-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2023\/04\/04\/a-cyber-attack-on-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cyber Attack on Your Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"polls-299\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<div class=\"pollHeader\"><strong>Appropriate measures have been taken to mitigate the impact of a cyber attack on my advice business.<\/strong><\/div><div id=\"polls-299-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Agree <small>(48%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 48%\" title=\"Agree (48% | 15 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Not sure <small>(29%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 29%\" title=\"Not sure (29% | 9 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Disagree <small>(23%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 23%\" title=\"Disagree (23% | 7 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_299_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"1e7982a26a\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The scary prospect of the almost inevitable moment your business becomes the subject of a cyber attack forms the basis for our latest poll.<\/p>\n<p>As starkly outlined by The Cyber Collective&#8217;s <strong>Fraser Jack<\/strong> at the Riskinfocus 23 CPD Tour events in recent weeks, it&#8217;s not a case of if, but rather when, a cyber attack on your advice business will occur.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the preparedness of your business for such an attack, Jack addresses the multiple challenges in three stages, namely before, during and after attacks take place (see: <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2023\/04\/04\/the-three-stages-of-cyber-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Three Stages of Cyber Security<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Amongst other sobering reflections, Jack channels boxer Mike Tyson&#8217;s famous words that &#8220;&#8230;everyone has a plan &#8217;til they get punched in the mouth&#8221;; his point being that while advice businesses think they have their ducks in place, it can often be a very different experience when the reality of a cyber attack actually hits.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65308\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-4d-Fraser-Jack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65308\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-4d-Fraser-Jack-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-4d-Fraser-Jack-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-4d-Fraser-Jack-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-4d-Fraser-Jack-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-4d-Fraser-Jack-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-4d-Fraser-Jack.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fraser Jack asks his Riskinfocus 23 audience to consider whether they treat the asset that is their business the same or differently to how they would protect a diamond&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jack shares best practice strategies and solutions across each of the three stages of a cyber attack, which all serve to mitigate the impact of potential attacks on the business. What our poll is seeking to determine is the extent to which you think you&#8217;ve already implemented these or similar mitigating processes, systems and staff training sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Are you behind the 8-ball when it comes to your business readiness to confront a cyber attack? Or have you already taken sufficient steps to the extent that you&#8217;re not losing sleep worrying about the security of your business data and, importantly, the often highly sensitive client data that you hold?<\/p>\n<p>Be brutally honest with your assessment! Tell us where you think your business is positioned at the moment on this question and we&#8217;ll report back next week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65305\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-Latest-Poll-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-65305\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-Latest-Poll-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-Latest-Poll-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-Latest-Poll-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-Latest-Poll-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-Latest-Poll-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-Latest-Poll-1-696x391.png 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-Latest-Poll-1-1068x601.png 1068w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-Latest-Poll-1-747x420.png 747w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/230404-Latest-Poll-1.png 1684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is your advice business ready &#8211; really ready &#8211; to mitigate the impact of a cyber attack&#8230;? This slide from Fraser Jack&#8217;s presentation at Riskinfocus 23 made audiences around the country sit up and take notice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scary prospect of the almost inevitable moment your business becomes the subject of a cyber attack forms the basis for our latest poll. As starkly outlined by The Cyber Collective&#8217;s Fraser Jack at the Riskinfocus 23 CPD Tour events in recent weeks, it&#8217;s not a case of if, but rather when, a cyber attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8285,49,4474],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cyber-security","8":"category-polls","9":"category-practice-management"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}