Importance Of Cybersecurity In Today’s Digital World

The importance of cybersecurity in todays digital world is often framed around defending your own network, and a good deal of the data has already left it.

Payroll, HR records, customer information, files and communications commonly sit with third-party providers. So does the data your suppliers hold about your people. When one of them is breached, your information is involved and your obligations may follow, even though nothing of yours was touched.

Three questions cover most of it. Which providers hold personal information belonging to your staff or your customers. What each of them has committed to about security, and about telling you promptly if something happens. And whether anybody reviews those commitments at renewal rather than only once at signing.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner publishes guidance on third-party arrangements. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

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