Email compromise presents one of the most reported cyber security risks according to the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) - the federal agency running Australia's Cyber Security Centre.
Email accounts are valuable targets for cybercriminals as they can be used to impersonate account owners, spread scams or malicious links, access sensitive information, and perform password resets.
To help keep your organisation safe, put systems and processes in place to reduce the risk of a cyber event, and plan for what to do if one occurs. The ASD recommends that your organisation takes these simple steps to review your email securityExternal Link:
- check your email settings
- turn on multi-factor authentication
- turn on email content filtering
- train staff and volunteers to recognise suspicious email activity.
The ASD have developed guidance and informationExternal Link to help you to improve your organisation’s cyber defences and help your NFP respond to and recover from cyber incidents.
And if you get a phone call, text message or email that claims to be from the ATO but something feels off, don’t engage with it – visit verify or report a scam on the ATO website or call 1800 008 540 for confirmation.
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