The most expensive line item in your last acquisition is the one that was never on the term sheet. Financial due diligence checks every material line. Cyber due diligence, in most Australian mid-market deals, closes at a folder marked “IT is handling it.” The gap between those two disciplines is where valuation quietly moves at … Read more
Nobody sets out to have a data breach. What actually happens, in most of the cases Cyber Ethos investigates, is smaller and slower than that. A single piece of information ends up somewhere it shouldn’t, and months later it’s the thread a criminal pulls to unravel everything else. That’s the part most explanations of cyber … Read more
It’s 5:40 on a Friday afternoon. Someone in accounts mentions that a few files won’t open and the shared drive is behaving oddly. It’s probably nothing. It’s been a long week. What happens in the next ten minutes will shape the next few months of your business. The honest answer to “how quickly should you … Read more
Quick answer The Gold Coast’s biggest cyber risk is not sophisticated hacking. It is access control in a casual, high-turnover workforce. Hospitality and tourism businesses run on shared logins, staff who come and go fast, and accounts that outlive the person who used them, and that is exactly the gap attackers exploit. Nationally, a cybercrime … Read more
Quick answer Brisbane businesses are not targeted because of where they are. They are targeted because of what they do. Construction, property, and professional services firms move large payments between many parties by email, and that is exactly what Business Email Compromise (BEC) exploits. It is Australia’s costliest cybercrime. Nationally, a cybercrime is reported every … Read more
The Sunshine Coast is no longer just beaches, hinterland, and holiday-makers. Over the past few years it has quietly become one of Australia’s most digitally connected regions — home to international submarine cables, a NEXTDC data centre, and a fast-growing technology sector. That’s brilliant news for local business. It’s also the reason cyber security now … Read more
A managing director put this question to me last quarter, and it captures the shift Australian boards still have not fully absorbed. “How worried should we be about hackers breaking into our network?“ The honest answer is: less worried than you should be about an attacker logging in as your CFO with a password they … Read more
What Prompt Injection is, in Board Language Think of prompt injection as social engineering for your AI systems. Instead of tricking a person, the attacker tricks the AI by hiding instructions in content it will read and trust. It might be a line buried in a document, email, web page, code comment, or internal knowledge … Read more
For most professional services firms, trust is one of your most valuable assets. Professional services firms on the Gold Coast handle some of the most sensitive information a business can possess, from financial records and legal documents to confidential client data. As cyber threats become more sophisticated, protecting this information has become a critical business … Read more
What cybersecurity risks are Gladstone businesses facing in 2026? The answer goes beyond hackers and viruses. Today’s threats include ransomware attacks, AI-generated phishing emails, cloud misconfigurations, supply chain vulnerabilities, and human error. As businesses become more dependent on digital systems, the potential consequences of a cyber incident continue to grow. Fortunately, many of these risks … Read more
