Australia has released a series of guides designed to help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) safeguard their cloud environments and against common cybersecurity incidents. These include technical guidelines for multi-factor authentication and patch management.
On Friday, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) said it had developed the Small Business Cloud Security Guides in recognition that SMBs might need more resources to understand the complexities of operating online or responding to potential cyber risks.
The government agency said the guides would help these businesses understand such risks and how to work with managed service providers or their own IT teams to ensure robust cyber hygiene.
The cloud security guides were developed with Microsoft, said ACSC’s head Abigail Bradshaw, who added that working with public and private organizations helped establish Australia as “a hard target” for cybercriminals.
This felt very tactical. How about considering it a holiday present to the industry – more guides for helping SMBs pull together the basics. That isn’t to devalue the guides. Instead, it’s to highlight using this and similar resources.