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Cybersecurity Solutions for Your Australian Business

Serious About Security? We Are.

Digital Peripherals provides clear, practical support to assess your cyber risks, enabling your business to build robust resilience and achieve secure growth. We equip you with the insights and protection needed to navigate today’s threats and confidently pursue your future goals.

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What is Cybersecurity and Why Is It Critical for Your Business?

Cybersecurity is about protecting your technology, data, and information from accidental or illegal access, corruption, theft, and damage. As your business grows and evolves, day-to-day operating needs often take priority, and non-core activities like cybersecurity can unfortunately lose focus.

However, businesses must care about cybersecurity. It’s essential for protecting sensitive data, maintaining customer trust, avoiding potentially crippling financial losses, and ensuring business continuity – all of which are crucial for your long-term success. Don’t make it easy for cybercriminals to exploit your business’s technology weaknesses.

Our Services

Stay Up, Stay Running, Stay Protected

Cybersecurity is not a “set and forget” solution; it’s something that needs constant work to ensure your needs are met as your business evolves. Digital Peripherals offers a range of cybersecurity services to provide robust, ongoing protection. We don’t just sell products; we provide solutions and peace of mind.

Cybersecurity Consultation & Risk Assessments

Many businesses aren't sure where their security weaknesses lie, what risks they genuinely face, or how to best comply with standards like the Essential 8.

What We Do

We begin with a basic consultation to understand your unique business and concerns, followed by detailed vulnerability assessments to pinpoint weaknesses. We then guide you in applying relevant security frameworks, especially the Australian Cyber Security Centre's Essential 8, giving you a clear, jargon-free understanding of your specific cyber risks and a practical, actionable roadmap to significantly boost your security, protect assets, and meet compliance needs

Managed Security Services

Actively defending against constantly evolving cyber threats and managing complex security tools can overwhelm internal resources and distract from core business activities.

What We Do

We offer ongoing, proactive defence, including continuous system monitoring for suspicious activity, proactive threat detection, and swift expert response to incidents. This can involve managed firewalls, advanced endpoint protection, and security information analysis tailored for SMBs, allowing you to focus on your business with confidence, knowing your security is actively managed by experienced professionals around the clock, significantly reducing your risk and potential disruptions.

Network Security & VPN Solutions

Your network is vital but also a prime target. With faster internet and increased remote work, ensuring all connections are secure is more critical than ever for protecting business data.

What We Do

We implement and manage robust network defences, including enterprise-grade firewalls as a strong barrier, secure Wi-Fi configurations, and robust Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions for encrypted remote access. This means your entire network infrastructure is better protected from external attacks and unauthorised access, ensuring your data remains secure, even for remote employees, and giving you greater control.

Web & Email Protection

Everyday tools like web browsers and email are two of the most common entry points for malware, ransomware, and costly phishing attacks into a business.

What We Do

We provide centrally managed web access solutions to monitor usage and block online threats, combined with advanced email security to filter spam, block viruses, provide impostor protection, and defend against phishing attacks. This approach drastically reduces the risk of infections from online Browse and email-borne threats, protecting your sensitive data, finances, and maintaining employee productivity.

Identity Management & User Access Control

Managing numerous logins for various cloud apps can lead to weak password practices, while ensuring correct access levels for employees (and removing access promptly when they leave) is a complex security task.

What We Do

We implement solutions for centralised login management, including vital Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and guidance on secure password practices, to effectively control who accesses your systems and data. This significantly cuts the risk of unauthorised access from compromised credentials, simplifies user account management, and boosts your overall system security.

Data Protection & Backup Solutions

Data loss due to hardware failure, accidental deletion, software corruption, or a cyberattack like ransomware can halt your business and be incredibly costly.

What We Do

We design and implement robust data backup and recovery strategies, ensuring your critical business and customer data is regularly and automatically backed up to a secure location and encrypted. We also ensure the recovery process is tested and reliable, so you can maintain business continuity and restore operations quickly if a disaster occurs, minimizing downtime and financial impact.
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Your Cybersecurity Responsibilities in Australia

As Australian businesses rely more and more on digital technology, the risk of cyber attacks unfortunately grows. To help protect businesses and their customers, Australia has an evolving set of legal and regulatory obligations. Understanding these responsibilities is a crucial part of running a business in today’s digital world. It’s not just about compliance; it’s about building trust and ensuring your business is resilient.

A cornerstone of Australian cybersecurity law is the Privacy Act 1988. A key part of this Act is the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme. What this means for your business is that if a data breach happens and it’s likely to cause serious harm to individuals whose personal information is involved, you’re required to notify those individuals and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). This really underscores the need for every business to be proactive in protecting the personal data it holds.

Under the Australian Consumer Law, your business has a responsibility to ensure the goods and services you provide are up to standard. This includes making sure they are of acceptable quality and fit for their intended purpose. In our increasingly digital age, this can extend to the security of your products, like software or hardware. Essentially, there’s an expectation that what you offer is reasonably secure from cyber threats.

It’s important to know that some industries in Australia have additional, specific cybersecurity regulations. For example, businesses in the banking and finance sector are subject to strict requirements from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). Similarly, healthcare providers need to comply with the My Health Records Act 2012, which has specific rules for protecting sensitive health information. If your business operates in a regulated sector, understanding these extra obligations is vital.

While not a law itself, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has developed the Essential Eight Maturity Model. This model outlines eight baseline strategies that are fundamental to good cybersecurity. Increasingly, following the Essential Eight is seen as a standard for what “reasonable security measures” look like. Although adopting these strategies is currently voluntary for most businesses, doing so can clearly show your commitment to best practices in cybersecurity. (At Digital Peripherals, we often guide businesses in understanding and implementing these strategies).

If your business operates internationally or handles the personal data of people overseas, you might also need to comply with foreign laws. A well-known example is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This law can apply to Australian businesses even if they don’t have an office in the EU, as long as they are dealing with the data of EU citizens.

While taking out cyber insurance isn’t a legal requirement, it’s becoming an increasingly common and important part of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy for many businesses. It can provide financial protection and support in the event of a significant cyber incident.

Understanding the Cyber Risks Your Business Faces

Cyber threats to your Australian business are common and varied, seriously impacting your technology, data, and information. These dangers can originate from organised criminals seeking money or information, competitors looking for an advantage, or even current or former employees who accidentally or intentionally compromise your sensitive data.

Cybercriminals are constantly looking for ways to access your business, employee, and customer data. Their common tactics include stealing or accessing your hardware, infecting devices with malware (like viruses, ransomware, and spyware), attacking your technology or website, targeting third-party systems, sending deceptive emails or text messages containing malware, or gaining access through the actions of your employees or customers.

When these attacks succeed, your money, information, technology, and reputation are all at risk. A cyberattack could destroy, expose, or corrupt vital assets such as:

  • Customer records and personal information
  • Emails and private communications
  • Financial records and business plans
  • New business ideas and intellectual property
  • Employee information

The Scale of the Problem in Australia

To underscore the reality of these threats, in the 2024 financial year, the Australian Signals Directorate received 87,000 reports of cybercrime. That’s a report every six minutes on average. Since many incidents go unreported, the actual crime rate is certainly much higher, highlighting why proactive cybersecurity is so essential.

The Scale of the Problem in Australia

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How Cyber Criminals May Attack Your Business

Cyber criminals look for ways to access information and data on your business, employees and customers. They might do this by:

  • Stealing or Accessing Your Hardware, Computers and Mobile Devices
  • Infecting Devices with Malware (Such as Viruses, Ransomware and Spyware)
  • Attacking Your Technology or Website
  • Attacking Third Party Systems
  • Spamming You with Emails or Text Messages Containing Malware
  • Getting Access Through Your Employees or Customers.

Experience, Expertise, and a Commitment to Your Success

For nearly four decades, our passion for everything technical has propelled us. At Digital Peripherals, we are committed to delivering a high quality of service with meticulous attention to detail. Our goal is to establish a long-term relationship built on trust and the success of our clients.

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FAQ’s

Frequently Asked Questions

Can my small business afford proper cybersecurity?

That’s a very common concern we hear. The truth is, the cost of not having good cybersecurity (like suffering a data breach or ransomware attack) is almost always far higher than a proactive investment in protection. At Digital Peripherals, we don’t do one-size-fits-all. We start with understanding your specific business and budget. Our goal is to recommend practical, cost-effective measures that give you the best protection for your investment, focusing on what’s truly essential for your operations.

The best first step is usually a straightforward conversation and a basic assessment of where you currently stand. Give us a call. We can begin with a basic consultation to understand your business, what technology you use, and what your main concerns are. From there, we can help you identify any immediate risks and suggest a clear, prioritised path forward, rather than trying to boil the ocean.

We completely understand that. Our approach is built on making cybersecurity understandable and manageable for businesses that don’t have dedicated IT security staff. We explain things in plain English, avoid unnecessary jargon, and focus on implementing solutions that are not only effective but also practical for your team to work with. Part of our service is to handle the complexities behind the scenes so you can focus on your business.

The Essential Eight is a set of baseline cybersecurity strategies developed by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC). Think of it as a fantastic starting point for protecting your business against common cyber threats. While it’s not a law for all businesses, implementing these strategies is widely recognised as a strong foundation for good security. We can help you understand what the Essential Eight means for your specific business and guide you through implementing the strategies in a way that’s practical and provides real benefits.

That’s a common and important question. While major cloud providers like Microsoft have excellent security for their infrastructure (their data centres and the cloud platform itself), you still have a crucial role in securing your data within that cloud. This is often called the “shared responsibility model.” It means you’re responsible for things like strong passwords, correct user access permissions, multi-factor authentication, and how you configure the services. We help businesses ensure their cloud setups are configured securely to properly protect their information.