How Vulnerable is your Business to Ransomware?
We do IT Cyber Risk Assessments for business owners to help you strengthen your Cyber Shields, stay connected, operate more securely, protect your customers and staff.
“If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
A quality independent cyber risk assessment helps you know your critical gaps, and how your IT team can close them to protect your business, clients and staff. Like independent financial or workplace safety assessments.
― Cyber Shield Advisors.
Did you know? Every 10 minutes, a cyber attack targets an Australian SME business.
SME businesses are prime targets for cyber criminals because they often have fewer resources to defend themselves, and their IT provider often lacks specialist cyber security skills while spread too thin across too many clients.
The consequences can be devastating.
The average self-reported loss per incident to small businesses was $46,000 in 2022-2023 according to the Australian Signals Directorate, ASD), excluding lost business, brand & reputation damage, and potential privacy lawsuits.
The average cost per cyber breach was almost $100,000 for medium businesses in Australia.
That is why the Australian government announced its Cyber Security Strategy, spanning 6 cyber shields. Shield 1, the very first and highest priority, is focused on small business, and individuals.
And that is why we exist: to empower business owners, you, with knowledge: know your IT security gaps, navigate cyber complexities, boost your shields and be more secure for your customers and staff.
Check out our free Cyber Risk Health Check.
When was your last independent Cyber Security Assessment?
Do you have an IT Risk Register?
Do you have an IT Risk Treatment Plan?
ASD Network Partner
We are a member of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) Network Partner Program. This provides us access to early threat intelligence, enhanced situational awareness, and collaboration opportunities to refine our assessment process continually.
When combined with our 30 years of experience, our ACSC Network Partner membership benefits provide you the ultimate reassurance in assessment quality.
Introducing Cyber Shield Advisors:
- We get you. You're focused on growth, not managing complex IT security. We're a small business too, and we understand that.
- We respect you and your IT provider, but relying solely on them for security is risky. Human error can happen. Junior staff might overlook crucial vulnerabilities. The best practice is for the separation of duties, and cyber security is a rare specialty spanning 8 domains of expertise.
We offer you the benefit of over 30 years of broad IT industry experience, across all 8 security domains.
Independent Cyber Health Check:
- Best practice is separation of duties: an independent assessment.
- Unlike IT providers or MSPs "marking their own exams," our health checks are independent, and thorough.
- Our assessments follow trusted industry frameworks (NIST, CIS, ACSC Essential Eight) and security domains (CISSP, CISM), ensuring the highest level of security evaluation, and to respected best practices - as they relate to SMB.
- The quality of an assessment depends entirely on the experience of the risk analyst: with 30 years of IT experience across all 8 domains, we're confident in the quality of our assessments and risk treatment plans.
Why "Free" or Self-Assessments aren't Enough:
- Time is money: Your time is valuable and most SMB owners are already time-poor.
- Free self-assessments are time-consuming and require technical knowledge you may not have. This could cost you valuable time otherwise spent on your customers.
- Don't waste time on a DIY project that may leave costly gaps.
- Large businesses offer a free assessment - but you know there's no such thing as a free lunch: free assessments often recommend purchasing products, from them.
- We focus on helping you and your IT provider.
- If "free" worked, there'd be no hacks and no large business charging big $$$.
The SMB Gap:
- Large security firms often only cater to bigger companies with bigger budgets.
- Their solutions are typically complex and expensive.
- Their vendor alliances motivate them to sell you more products.
- SMBs typically use SMB IT Providers - they manage your systems part-time, often lack deep cybersecurity expertise and need help from specialists.
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Our Commitment:
- Partnership: At Cyber Shield Advisors, we're dedicated to helping fellow small businesses like yours build strong cyber defenses.
- We're independent, transparent, and focused on providing an unbiased health check, not selling products for a commission.
- We are experienced in trusted global cyber security industry standards & frameworks, experienced across all 8 security domains - we work with your IT provider and save them time to uplift your security accordingly. We don't skip corners and try to create our own set of standards.
- We'll present our findings in plain language that you understand, and tailor a Risk Treatment plan to your budget, and your needs.
