Cyberbreach

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Cybersecurity threats are among the top challenges facing organisations of all sizes across the Australian economy.  

Empathetic and methodical communications can help ensure your organisation survives a cyber-attack with its reputation unharmed. The alternative can be a complete loss of trust among key stakeholders, threatening your organisation’s future.

Impacts on organisations

Our consultants have provided communications support amid major cyber breaches, including notifiable data breaches. From this experience, the biggest challenges are:

Acute stress among organisation leadership.
Interruption to business as usual and stalling of special projects.
Financial impacts, ranging from the cost of additional professional support to opportunity cost and lost business.
Maintaining nimble communications while the scale and scope of the breach are uncertain.
1,012 Breaches

Reported to the Privacy Commissioner FY 2023–2024

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1 every 6 Minutes

Average frequency a cybercrime was reported to the Australian Signals Directorate FY2023–2024

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Data breach response plans

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) recommends that all organisations prepare a data breach response plan - a framework that sets out the roles and responsibilities involved in managing a data breach.  

Communications play a key role in any data breach response plan. Your data breach response team should include a professional with media and communications expertise.

Preparing for
a Cyber Breach

Wilkinson Butler can help your organisation better prepare for a cyber threat. We can:

Refine your data breach response plan and improve elements that require communications and stakeholder engagement.
Test the readiness of your organisation with a simulated data breach communications exercise.
Connect you with other professionals with deep cyber experience, including forensic experts and lawyers.
Be on-call to embed in your data breach response team at a moment’s notice.

Responding to a
Cyber Breach

With decades of experience in all manner of crises, including cyber-attacks, Wilkinson Butler can help your organisation survive a data breach while keeping your reputation intact.

On call 24/7, our consultants have been the media and communications experts on numerous data breach response teams. We’ve provided teams with strategic and tactical assistance on:

Communications strategy.
Developing a suite of communications assets that evolve as more information comes to hand for affected stakeholders.
Media engagement – reactive and proactive.
Stakeholder engagement, including government.
Digital and multimedia content development, including videos and graphic design.

Depending on the size of your organisation, we can scale up or scale down our support, providing high-level strategic counsel or the detailed drafting of communications and assets.

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