Why this year is different
Australia’s digital reliance keeps expanding, and adversaries are scaling with it: more hotline calls, more notifications, and higher average losses. Treat compromise as likely and organize your defences around crown jewels.
Key signals
- Incident response volumes up; proactive notifications way up.
- DDoS volumes rising; ransomware remains the most disruptive.
- Identity fraud tops consumer threats; BEC remains costly for business.
What to do next
- Harden edge and legacy tech.
- Instrument logging and baselining for behaviour analytics.
- Enforce MFA and rotate exposed credentials.
- Pressure-test backups and run exercises.