Your small business owner and manager clients might not consider themselves prime targets for cyber attacks.

They may assume big companies have more information to steal and more profits to siphon off, so they’re targeted most often by criminals online. In reality, the opposite is often true.

Everyone can be a cybercrime target – even SMEs – and the onus is on SME owners to stand up to the cybercrime epidemic, spread awareness and do their part to prevent incidents. That process begins with simply admitting the problem exists.

If one of your

Trucking along

·        Data released since the start of the year shows the outlook has improved markedly since the end of 2016. Rising business confidence is driving job creation and providing a key support to household income and consumer spending while wages growth remains weak. In 2017, we expect 1.8% GDP growth followed by 2.2% in 2018. However, as the labour market continues to tighten and wages growth grinds higher we expect GDP growth to rise to 2.9% in 2019 and 3.4% in 2020.

·        Monetary policy will remain supportive until there

Cyber is critical and must be covered off with clients since it is now an established exposure. Gary Gribbin, IBNA Limited Chairman has listed below the Cyber matters that they’ve paid last year. There were a similar amount prior year and some higher claims the year before and they have a $500k matter in the pipe at the moment.

Brief description
Approx Paid

Insured suffered multiple cyber-attacks. Potential BI loss. Crawfords assisting Insured.

0.00

Insured suffered a crypto-locker attack leading to a significant impact upon the business.

35,000.00

On 15 June

iCare today announced that new business owners in NSW will benefit from a simplified multi-channel platform, for the first time enabling new businesses to get a quote and buy a workers insurance policy with iCare directly.

iCare Group Executive Workers Insurance, John Nagle, said the new offering will improve the customer experience by making it easier and faster for new businesses to arrange their workers insurance anywhere, any time.

“Since iCare formed, we have put the customer at the centre of everything we do. Our direct

Wangara, Western Australia – 4 October 2015: Oracle Group Insurance Brokers is pleased to announce a merger between itself, WA-based Centro Chambers Insurance Brokers and Queensland-based Agile Insurance Advice. The merger will be official on January 31, 2016, and the new company will retain Oracle Group’s branding nationally and continue to use Agile’s brand across in Qld, NSW & Vic.

In a joint statement, Oracle Group Director Nathan McKeon and Centro Chambers Managing Director Graeme Dorrell, advised that the merger is expected to:

● Increase profits by allowing the three firms to

Seems like you cannot scroll through your Facebook or Twitter news feeds these days without something popping up about the latest hack of someone’s or some businesses private records. (I apologise for not mentioning the online News syndicates but who reads them anyway right?) Of course, as does always happen with repetition in news stories, people’s interest wanes so eventually the reporting on them becomes less and less important. However, in the world of Cyber News, then came along the attack on the Ashley Maddison website run by Avid Life

The problem is – it will cost you if you don’t have it or don’t have enough of the right.
An unfortunate problem when you get it wrong and the biggest issue is, if you D.I.Y. (do it yourself) with a direct insurer………………. how do you know if you get it right? Is the insurer ACTUALLY going to tell you what you need versus what you can buy versus what everyone else gets AND is that actually suitable to you.

Well, who the hell knows then? An Insurance Broker.

Why I hear you

Seems like you cannot scroll through your Facebook or Twitter news feeds these days without something popping up about the latest hack of someone’s or some businesses private records. (I apologise for not mentioning the online News syndicates but who reads them anyway right?) Of course, as does always happen with repetition in news stories, people’s interest wanes so eventually the reporting on them becomes less and less important. However, in the world of Cyber News, then came along the attack on the Ashley Maddison website run by