David speaks: Cyber Security Training for a Brisbane Conveyancing Firm


David has once again been delivering Cyber Security Awareness Training, this time it was for one of our Brisbane based Conveyancing clients, David visited them onsite to conduct a hybrid training session from their boardroom with 4 of the team joining via Zoom.

With Queensland leading the way in cyber crime in the OAIC's most recent report, many businesses are now recognising that educating their team on the intricacies of cyber security in day to day life is an important step to combating the persistent threat to their data security. The top 3 cybercrimes reported by businesses in the OAIC report were:

  • email compromise resulting in no financial loss (20%)
  • online banking fraud (13%)
  • business email compromise (BEC) fraud resulting in financial loss (13%).


What is covered?

David's presentation gives your team an overview of cyber security, the common threats that staff will encounter as part of their roles and how to proactively combat them.   The presentation is designed to be highly engaging, delivered in plain English and with humour, and includes topics such as:

  • The business of hacking
  • Phishing – the #1 way cyber breaches occur
  • Social Engineering – whaling/spearphishing
  • AI and its increasing use in businesses
  • Passwords
  • Multifactor Authentication
  • Secure Wi-Fi 
  • USB key tools

David tailors the presentation to each client, focusing on key attack vectors for their industry and highlighting areas where existing measures are in place to combat cyber threats, such as tagging incoming external emails with [EXTERNAL] in the subject line to prevent hackers pretending to send email from internal email addresses requesting urgent payment of invoices for instance. This security measure is in place with both of the clients who recently received training and has been effective in reducing the risk of a breach.

What are the benefits?


Protecting your business is obviously the number 1 benefit of Security Awareness Training for your team, but it also extends further than that, it helps create a "security first" culture in your organisation and aligns with the 9 key areas that OAIC have provided as steps and strategies which may be reasonable to take to ensure your organisation secures its data inline with requirements, including:

  • Governance, culture and training
  • Internal practices, procedures and systems
  • ICT security
  • Access security
  • Third party providers (including cloud computing)
  • Data breaches
  • Physical security
  • Destruction and de-identification

And more importantly, feedback from our clients has been that David's presentations have helped "humanise" cyber security and gave practical examples of threats and steps staff could take to minimise them.

We also include a recording and PDF copy of the presentation, cyber security posters for the office along with a tech tips flyer with additional tools and information. 

Where do we sign up?

Just give us a call or email to discuss your Cyber Security training needs.