The Australian Government has introduced a new initiative to help small business increase their knowledge, resilience and recovery around cyber security.
What is the Small Business Cyber Resilience Service?
The Small Business Cyber Resilience Service (the Service) is an Australian Government initiative that provides free, tailored, person-to-person support for small businesses to improve their cyber security and recover from cyber incidents.
The Service has two core functions:
- To support small businesses to assess and build their cyber resilience.
- working one on one with them to develop a tailored plan to improve the small business’ cyber security
- recommending specific actions, tools and guidance best suited to the small business’ risk, situation and capability.
- To support small businesses to recover after a cyber incident (for example, account compromise, phishing, hacking and ransomware), with case management and device remediation.
- providing practical steps the small business can take to recover from an incident
- providing case management support, including mental health support
- providing Cyber First Aid through device remediation
- facilitating referrals to additional support services where required
Who can access this funding
Small businesses with 19 or less full-time (or equivalent) employees, including sole traders, across Australia, in both regional and metropolitan areas can access this service.
