Home topics technology business-tech-blogs Business Tech Devices Software Business Tech Seven ways to protect business information on a Mac Chris Russell May 3, 2012 When business information is on the line, your entire organisation is at risk, particularly as a small business. You can’t afford to let complacency be the hallmark of your security strategy, and you can’t think you’re invisible to the bad guys. For SMBs that use Macs to fuel their businesses taking the appropriate steps to protect their information, is now a necessity. Walk into any business today, either large or small, and it is not difficult to find an Apple device sitting on a desk somewhere. In fact for the first time, Apple has recently become the fourth largest PC vendor in Australia, according to analyst firm Gartner – providing an insight into the scale of Apple penetration locally. The Mac community has grown enormously in the last decade – and now cybercriminals are taking notice, as evidenced by the recent Flashback outbreak . The Flashback virus, which targets a Java vulnerability in Mac OS for which Apple has since issued a security update, spread quickly. This Trojan infected upwards of half a million Mac machines, some of them in Australia, creating a large botnet that transfers information back to the cybercriminals. While Apple responded quickly with a security update to address this issue, Flashback should be a wake-up call for SMBs – malware authors now consider Mac computers a viable battleground along with the Windows