When you pack up after a busy day teaching, you’ll close the windows, lock the doors and make sure anything worth taking isn’t left lying around. Basic cybersecurity works much the same way. Cyber criminals look for easy, low-hanging fruit. Like burglars, they are...
Recent cyber security breaches experienced by North Island health network, Pinnacle Health, and Australian telco, Optus, have been splashed all over the news, again highlighting that cyber attacks are becoming more frequent and costly. Less well-known, however, is...
Once again, we’ve teamed up with our friends at CERT NZ to support Cyber Smart Week by providing some helpful tips that you can implement to help keep your kura or school online learning environment safer and more secure. The use of technology in schools continues to...
We all know how important it is to be vigilant against the threat of potential dangers online, like phishing or scams, to prevent a cyber attack. Most of us also know this is because cyber attacks can have consequences for everyone involved - whether it’s the loss of...
Written by Bill Bennett, tech journalist Cyber security is changing. In the past the focus was on building a defensive wall around known devices and fixed networks. That’s harder now that people can move around, choose their own devices and use external connections to...
It’s Netsafety Week and we’ve joined forces with Netsafe to promote the safe and positive use of the internet. This year’s theme is Diversity Matters. Online Safety Done Together. This week is about understanding different communities’ online safety perspectives and...
Keeping your school or kura secure online may seem like a complex task and we understand that frequent media reports of cyber criminals getting more and more sophisticated can feel overwhelming. There are many different types of online risk and threats schools and...