Match your adversary with smarter resources

"We can form a single united body, while the enemy must split up into fractions. Hence there will be a whole pitted against separate parts of a whole, which means that we shall be many to the enemy's few."
Organised crime gangs are well funded and organised. But those they attack, all of us, are larger in number. By uniting, we learn from each other and leverage each other's strengths to compensate for our weaknesses.
And there are organisations and resources to assist. First, establish your incident-response capability. Start by writing a policy, develop a stepwise plan and hook into local, state and federal agencies.
One of the best sources for help is CERT Australia, the national Computer Emergency Response Team and the primary Australian contact for cyber security incidents on Australian networks. Another source is the Australian Federal Police High Tech Crime Operations.
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Cybercriminals are well organised and well-funded and so must you be. |