This chapter helps learners to recognise common cyber threats, scams, and warning signs, including phishing, payment fraud, AI-enabled scams, and social engineering.

Welcome to the Course!

Video: Meet Mary & Tama

Reflection: How Digital Is Your Business?

Focus: Why Small Businesses Are Targeted

Practice: What Are Criminals Looking For?

Focus: The Cost of a Cyber Attack

Video: A Busy Monday Morning

Focus: Spotting the Red Flags

Practice: Spot the Red Flags

Practice: Cybersecurity Health Check

Story: A Costly Mistake?

Practice: Payment Decision Challenge

Reflection: Before You Pay...

Challenge: Stop the Threats

Achievement: Business Cyber Defender

Chapter 1: Stop Threats Before They Happen

This chapter explains how to respond effectively to a cyber incident by containing the problem, seeking appropriate help, recovering safely, and using the experience to strengthen future cybersecurity practices.

Let's Keep Going!

Video: Six Months Later...

Reflection: Growing Your Business Safely

Focus: Protecting What Matters

Story: An Honest Mistake

Focus: The Key to Your Business

Practice: The Key to Your Business

Video: Crises at Raro Soaps & Tama's Pearls

Reflection: What Would You Do?

Focus: Responding to a Cyber Incident

Practice: The First 24 Hours

Focus: New Scams, New Technology

Reflection: My Business Cyber Action Plan

Challenge: Respond & Recover

Achievement: Cyber-Resilient Business

Chapter 2: Respond & Recover

<p>Meet Mary and Tama, two Cook Islands business owners navigating the opportunities and challenges of running a growing business in an increasingly digital world. Mary owns Raro Soaps, a small handmade soap and natural skincare business selling through local markets, Facebook, and souvenir shops. Tama runs Tama’s Pearls, a family pearl jewellery business serving local and international customers. As their businesses grow, they rely on online payments, banking, social media, messaging, suppliers, customer information, and other digital tools to keep their businesses running.</p><p>Throughout the course, learners follow Mary and Tama as they encounter realistic business situations involving scams, fake invoices, payment fraud, unsafe online purchases, accidental information sharing, password security, Multi-Factor Authentication, AI-enabled fraud, and other cyber risks. Through videos, graphic stories, interactive activities, practical challenges, and reflection, learners discover how to protect customer and business information, identify valuable digital assets, recognise warning signs, make safer payment decisions, secure accounts, respond to cyber incidents, and recover when something goes wrong. By the end of the course, learners have developed practical cybersecurity habits they can apply to protect their money, information, customers, and business as it continues to grow.</p>

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Protecting Your Business Online is a practical cybersecurity course for small business owners. Through the stories of Mary and Tama, learners explore common business cyber risks, protect information, and recognise scams and payment fraud.

Protecting Your Business Online

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Identify the information, accounts, devices, and digital tools that are important to protect in a small business.

Recognise common cyber threats, scams, and warning signs, including phishing, payment fraud, AI-enabled scams, and social engineering.

Apply practical security measures such as strong passphrases, unique passwords, Multi-Factor Authentication, secure backups, and appropriate access controls.

Make safer decisions when handling customer information, online payments, supplier requests, unfamiliar websites, and other digital business activities.

Respond effectively to a cyber incident by containing the problem, seeking appropriate help, recovering safely, and using the experience to strengthen future cybersecurity practices.

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