How to improve your cyber security
Me pēhea te whakapakari ake i tō haumarutanga ipurangi
Information, guidance and support to help protect your business from cyber attacks.
Information, guidance and support to help protect your business from cyber attacks.
On this page we’ll bring you information, guidance and support that will not only help your business, but enable you to better protect your personal online activities from cyber attacks.
Webinars
Our Cyber Security for the Tertiary Sector team facilitates online webinars to help organisations in the New Zealand tertiary education sector to better understand cyber security and help them decide what steps they can take to become more secure.
The cyber security webinars we’ve run so far have been well attended and informative. Recordings of these sessions are found below.
We’ve now arranged a further set of webinars – read about the opportunities below and use the registration link to confirm your attendance.
If you have any questions, email the team at CyberSecurityTertiarySector@tec.govt.nz.
Upcoming webinars
Delivered by Defend
You must register to attend a webinar.
Title |
Schedule |
Type |
Registration link |
Phishing Awareness Learn about the different kinds of phishing, how to spot a phish and what to do when phished. |
10-11am, Tuesday 16 April 2024 |
Presentation |
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Passwords & Authentication Learn more re different kinds of authentication, what makes a bad or good password, multi factor authentication and new developments. |
10-11am, Tuesday 14 May 2024 |
Presentation |
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Staying Safe Online Learn the biggest threats to the tertiary sector, how hackers get in, and what you can do to keep you and your organisation safe. |
10-11am, Tuesday 18 June 2024 |
Presentation |
Recordings of previous Defend webinars
Title |
Overview |
Learn about the different kinds of phishing, how to spot a phish and what to do when phished. |
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Learn the biggest threats to the tertiary sector, how hackers get in, and what you can do to keep your organisation and yourself safe. |
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Learn about what data to protect and how to keep data safe. |
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Zero Trust – YouTube, 33mins |
Learn how to use conditional access, muti-factor authentication, Azure Identity Protection and Zero Trust Principles to reduce the likelihood of accounts being compromised. |
Social Engineering – YouTube, 38mins |
Find out about the different methods that threat actors use to manipulate you to do the hard work for them. |
Additional educational videos and content from Microsoft
These workshops, run by Microsoft, provide targeted information on what to do to make your organisation more cyber secure. They are primarily aimed at tertiary education organisations (TEOs) with access to E5/A5 Microsoft licensing. We’ve outlined the groups most likely to benefit from the workshops, below:
Title |
Overview |
Links |
Most likely to benefit |
Security Foundations |
Setting the stage for Zero Trust, MFA and the basics on Identity based protection and why. |
IT professionals, security admins, identity, and access admins, CISOs, security managers. |
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CISO and Cloud Security Architectures - MCRA |
The Chief Information Security Office (CISO) workshop helps accelerate security program modernization with reference strategies built using Zero Trust principles. Building Cyber security capability within your teams. |
Individual CISO Workshop Videos – Microsoft MCRA playlist explaining each key topic in the MCRA – YouTube |
Security and risk managers, CISOs, IT managers. |
M365 Security |
What do we get with M365 Security? An overall session on what is available and what you need to plan to implement as a baseline. |
Video on using Defender M365 – YouTube |
IT professionals, security admins, identity and access admins, IT developers. |
Cloud & Hybrid Security |
Using Defender for Cloud to manage your multi cloud security requirements. |
Defender for Cloud video playlist – YouTube Defender for Cloud helps you simplify your cloud security management and improve your security outcomes. To learn more, visit https://aka.ms/defender-for-cloud |
IT professionals, security admins, identity and access admins, IT developers. |
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Cyber Security for the Tertiary Sector Newsletter
Print posters for your work
Download and print the Be prepared!/Kia takatū! poster (te reo Māori and English), and put copies in prominent places around your work and learning spaces. It has four simple steps you can take today that will give your cyber security a lift.
Be prepared! cyber security poster (PDF 337 KB)
Kia takatū! poster (PDF 215 KB)
More information
TEC’s Cyber Security for the Tertiary Sector project works alongside a number of agencies and organisations who keep Aotearoa New Zealand as safe as possible from cyber attacks. Here are some of them:
Department of Internal Affairs
National Cyber Security Centre
Contact details
If you’d like to find out more, contact us by email.