Cyber security for small business: the tech checklist — and the safety net

Ask any incident responder what actually breaches Australian small businesses and the answers are unglamorous: a reused password, an unpatched system, an invoice email that looked close enough to real.The good news hiding in that list is that most of it is preventable with tools businesses already own.
The checklist that stops most attacks
Turn on multi-factor authentication everywhere. Email, accounting software, cloud storage, remote access — MFA remains the single highest-value control