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Cyber Security for Small Businesses

Cyber Security for Small Businesses

By: James Eling
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Cyber Security for Small Businesses doesn't need to be complicated or expensive. Most of the time it comes down to planning, procedures and good Systems Administration. Learn the techniques that you can use to increase Cyber Resilience in your Small Business. The podcast covers auditing tools like the ACSC Essential 8, NIST and ISO 27001. It will look at ways that you can identify, protect, detect, respond and recovery to a cyber incident. You will learn about: Malware Denial of Service Man in the Middle Business Email Compromises Phishing and Spear Phishing SQL injection Viruses We will look at famous hacks, like Stuxnet and the Shadow Brokers and a lot more so that you understand the threat and can manage the risk appropriately.2022 Economics Management Management & Leadership
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  • 13 - Step by step breakdown of a real SME cyber attack and lessons learnt - Mimikatz and Radmin

    13 - Step by step breakdown of a real SME cyber attack and lessons learnt - Mimikatz and Radmin
    Jun 11 2026

    What happens when attackers breach two sites of the same company within 60 minutes on a Saturday night? This episode walks through a real incident response where Huntress SOC alerts caught credential dumping and lateral movement in progress — and how 24/7 monitoring stopped what was likely a ransomware attack before it crippled the business.

    Key learnings:
    • Why abandoned POS machines with open RDP ports became the attack vector six months after decommissioning
    • How Mimikatz and WebBrowserPassView extracted both Windows and browser credentials within the first hour
    • What application whitelisting would have blocked that antivirus missed entirely


    Check out the free ACSC Essential 8 self assessment audit tool. After completing the audit, you will be have a bespoke action plan, based on your type of business and your current security measures to achieve the right ACSC Maturity Level for your business.

    Cyber Security 4 Small Business is a set of resources to help small business owners understand the Cyber Threat and be able to defend their network in the most cost-effective way possible.

    We believe that 95% of Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience can be achieved through good systems administration and good processes, without all the expense of engaging cyber security experts.

    Check out the show notes for this episode.
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    31 mins
  • 12 - Managing a Cyber Incident in your Small Business

    12 - Managing a Cyber Incident in your Small Business
    Mar 13 2025

    This episode looks at managing a Cyber Incident in your Small or Medium Sized Business. After listening to this episode, your will be better equipped to understand how a cyber incident response should go, what to look for and how to manage it. Even if you have an IT company to do incident response, this will help you work with them and ensure that they know what they are doing.

    We discuss the PICERL methodology for incident response:

    Preparation
    Identify
    Containment
    Eradication
    Recovery
    Lessons Learnt

    Check out the free ACSC Essential 8 self assessment audit tool. After completing the audit, you will be have a bespoke action plan, based on your type of business and your current security measures to achieve the right ACSC Maturity Level for your business.

    Cyber Security 4 Small Business is a set of resources to help small business owners understand the Cyber Threat and be able to defend their network in the most cost-effective way possible.

    We believe that 95% of Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience can be achieved through good systems administration and good processes, without all the expense of engaging cyber security experts.

    Check out the show notes for this episode.
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    25 mins
  • 11 - Cyber Incident Response Planning for Small and Medium Sized Businesses

    11 - Cyber Incident Response Planning for Small and Medium Sized Businesses
    Feb 27 2025
    A Cyber Incident can be an intimidating process for any business owner and management team. Sadly, Cyber Incidents, especially email attacks are increasing. This episode looks at Cyber Incident Response planning specifically from the point of view of a Business Owner. What are the steps you can use to make the process easier.
    • We discuss the PICERL methodology. Preparation, Identification, Containment, Eradication, Recovery and Lessons Learnt.
    • The most important part of the process is preparation. Without it, the rest of the process is a lot more difficult.

    This podcast has a range of lessons for SMEs looking to prepare for a Cyber Incident and work towards making sure that the process is managed to the best of the ability of your company.

    Have a listen and find out the steps you can take before an incident to prepare for a cyber incident.

    Check out the free ACSC Essential 8 self assessment audit tool. After completing the audit, you will be have a bespoke action plan, based on your type of business and your current security measures to achieve the right ACSC Maturity Level for your business.

    Cyber Security 4 Small Business is a set of resources to help small business owners understand the Cyber Threat and be able to defend their network in the most cost-effective way possible.

    We believe that 95% of Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience can be achieved through good systems administration and good processes, without all the expense of engaging cyber security experts.

    Check out the show notes for this episode.
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    30 mins
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