The Waikato DHB hack should be a wake-up call to businesses, and frankly anyone, to become more conscious of their cyber security.

Doctors and nurses in the Waikato are back to using pen, paper and whiteboards and computers are likely to be out of action days if not weeks, after a ransomware attack crippled their network.

Peter Bailey is the General Manager of Aura Information Security and he told Heather du Plessis-Allan defence can come in a simple form such as educating staff.

“Your staff are one of those main areas that can protect your business, so training them to understand what phishing emails look like and the havoc they cause if you click on one."

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