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Is your website safe?

2,700+ people and businesses reported online crime to the FBI every day in 2025. Don't be one of them.

A plain-English guide to protecting a small business website, and the computers and phones that run it. Written for tradies, clinics, salons, advisers and shopfronts. It comes with our free 7-day e-course, Spot It, Stop It: one short lesson a day, each with a one-minute video and a checklist.

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Inside the guide

Easy to read. Easy to act on.

Short on time? Start with the myths, then do the easy safety check at the end. Prevention now is far quicker and cheaper than a clean-up later.

  1. 1
    Why small sites get hacked

    You aren't a target. You're a match.

  2. 2
    How AI changed the game

    Cheaper, faster, more convincing attacks

  3. 3
    Types of hack

    What each one looks like from your side

  4. 4
    Types of risk

    Money, Google, the law and your name

  5. 5
    Ten common myths

    Including one about a famous statistic

  6. 6
    Protecting a WordPress site

    Where 91% of the holes are, and how to close them

  7. 7
    Best practice for any website

    Wix, Squarespace and custom sites too

  8. 8
    Your devices are part of your website

    How a laptop hack becomes a website hack

  9. 9
    Static sites versus CMS sites

    Taking the doors away

  10. 10
    Your easy safety checklist

    Plus what to do if you've been hacked