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After waves of cyberhacks on Optus, Medibank and Telstra exposed millions of Australians’ sensitive data last year, the government will invest $23.4 million over the next three years to help small businesses build their resilience to cyber threats by training in-house cyber experts.
The small business Cyber Wardens program will be delivered by the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA), a big federal budget win for the organisation, which has been piloting the program and lobbying the government for funding to expand it.
In recent years small businesses have rapidly digitised, making them increasingly vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated cybercrime attacks.
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