How to improve your cyber security

Me pēhea te whakapakari ake i tō haumarutanga ipurangi

Last updated 20 September 2023
Last updated 20 September 2023

Information, guidance and support to help protect your business from cyber attacks.

On this page we’ll bring you information, guidance and support that will not only help your business, but enable you to better protect your personal online activities from cyber attacks.

Workshops

Our Cyber Security for the Tertiary Sector project team is facilitating hour-long online workshops to help organisations figure out their own levels of cyber security, and decide what steps they can take to become more secure.

You’ll find details below. We encourage you to register as soon as possible as places are limited. Please let us know your two top preferences so we can ensure you get a place. We’ll get back to you with an invitation to the session.

Register by contacting Bernard.Duncan@tec.govt.nz.

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Staying Safe Online

Learn the biggest threats to the tertiary sector, how hackers get in, and what you can do to keep your organisation and yourself safe.

DEFEND

Tuesday 24 October, 10.00am

Presentation

MFA & Password Managers

A closer look at what makes a password easy or hard to crack and how multi-factor authentication can help.

DEFEND

Tuesday 31 October, 12.00pm

Lunch and Learn

Social Engineering

Find out about the different methods that threat actors use to manipulate you to do the hard work for them.

DEFEND

Tuesday 7 November, 12.00pm

Lunch and Learn

Conditional Access Policies, MFA, AADIP

Learn how to use conditional access, multi-factor authentication and Azure Identity protection to reduce the likelihood of accounts being compromised.

DEFEND

Tuesday 14 November, 12.00pm

Lunch and Learn

Zero Trust, Hybrid Working

Learn about concepts like Zero Trust and how they can keep you secure in a world of hybrid working.

DEFEND

Tuesday 21 November, 12.00pm 

Lunch and Learn

Staying Safe Online

Learn the biggest threats to the tertiary sector, how hackers get in, and what you can do to keep your organisation and yourself safe.

DEFEND

Tuesday 28 November, 10.00am

Presentation

Opt in to our newsletter

Our monthly newsletter will contain regular cyber security advice, keep you abreast of what’s happening in the cyber security world, and update you on our project’s progress. You can subscribe to it here.

Cyber Security for the Tertiary Sector Newsletter

Print posters for your work

Download and print the Be prepared!/Kia takatū! poster (te reo Māori and English), and put copies in prominent places around your work and learning spaces. It has four simple steps you can take today that will give your cyber security a lift.

Be prepared! cyber security poster (PDF 337 KB)

Kia takatū! poster (PDF 215 KB)

 

More information

TEC’s Cyber Security for the Tertiary Sector project works alongside a number of agencies and organisations who keep Aotearoa New Zealand as safe as possible from cyber attacks. Here are some of them:

CERT NZ

Department of Internal Affairs

National Cyber Policy Office

National Cyber Security Centre

Netsafe

New Zealand Police

Contact details

If you’d like to find out more, contact us by email.