It’s critical to safeguard your business and client information from cyber incidents.

Recent cyber attacks have shown how important it is to have robust cyber security practices in place to protect both your business and customer information.

Business owners hold the keys to their customers’ lives on their devices and are responsible for keeping that information safe from cybercriminals.

Application control

Put simply, application control involves you putting together a list of computer apps and/or downloadable programs that are ‘authorised’ as being legitimate and safe to use. You then add these authorised apps to your computer’s application control feature. These features act as your computer’s security guard, ensuring that you can only download and use the approved list of apps can be on your computer.

Doing this can minimise the risk of malicious code (also known as malware) being downloaded onto your systems, which can then disrupt, damage, or even gain unauthorised access to your computer systems.

It’s important that you regularly review the list of approved apps and remove any you no longer need. It’s also crucial that you test the application control to make sure it works. Simply try and download an app that isn’t on your authorised list and make sure your system blocks the download.

Source: ATO