The current cost to small businesses to achieve security certifications is significantly above their budget and their expectations. Recognizing the need for a more accessible standard, Assuredly has embraced SMB 1001, a new security standard/framework devised by experts at CSC AU. Unlike its predecessors, SMB 1001 offers a pragmatic and tiered approach to security controls, enabling small businesses to achieve Tier 1 compliance swiftly and enhance their security measures over time.

Cyber security assessments are a critical element of any organisation’s cyber security strategy.

Compliance with various security standards can be confusing and time-consuming. Here we help you understand the relationships between cybersecurity risk, controls, and compliance so you can make informed decisions about protecting your business.

As a business owner, it’s important to stay up-to-date with the latest information risk identification and assessment process. This process involves identifying your business’s physical devices, software, data flows, external information systems and organisational roles in order to assess the criticality of these assets. After that, you need to identify the threats that could harm these assets. Finally, you must identify the vulnerabilities of your identified assets. Let’s explore this further.

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