Manage cyber security at your service

Cyber security should be treated as a risk for your whole organisation. To keep your information safe and protect children from harm, you should regularly discuss cyber security with your staff.

There are 2 main areas to focus on.

Protect children from harm

Make sure:

• your network has content filtering (or equivalent) in place
• children at your service know how to keep themselves safe online.

Protect your information and systems

You can strengthen your information security and reduce the risk of cyber attacks by:

• using complex, hard to guess passwords – a combination of numbers, upper- and lower-case letters, and symbols and/or phrases with a minimum of 8 characters
• use separate passwords for work and personal systems
• back up important data regularly, and store it securely
• update your software and devices as soon as patches become available
• install antivirus software on your organisation’s devices.

If you are part of a larger organisation with more complex information technology (IT) systems, there may be a wider range of information and cyber security risks for you to consider.

Ask your network provider how they can help you manage network safety and security.

Report a cyber incident or get support

If you have an incident to report or need support, contact Netsafe or CERT NZ.

Netsafe

Phone: 0508 NETSAFE (0508 638723)

Email: [email protected]

Contact us – Netsafe

CERT NZ

Freephone (NZ only): 0800 CERT NZ (0800 237 869)

Report an incident – CERT NZ