Closed Grant Opportunity View - GO6705

The Small Business Cyber Resilience Service program (the program) was announced as part of the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy. Under Shield 1 of the Strategy, Strong businesses and citizens, the program will support small businesses to build their cyber security resilience and capability.

Small businesses face unique barriers to strengthen their cyber security as they have limited knowledge, time, staffing and resources to invest in cyber security. Small business owners need help navigating cyber security information and applying it to their business.

The Small Business Cyber Resilience Service will provide free, tailored, person-to-person cyber security support for small businesses, including:

• working one on one with a small business to develop a tailored plan to improve the small business's cyber security
• recommending specific actions, tools and guidance best suited to the small business's risk, situation and capability
• providing guidance on practical steps the small business can take to recover from an incident
• facilitating referrals to additional support services where required.

The objectives of the program are:

• build the cyber resilience and capability of small businesses
• provide support to small businesses impacted by a cyber incident.

The intended outcomes of the program are to improve the cyber security of small businesses and their ability to recover from a cyber incident.

You can apply if you:

• have an Australian business number (ABN)
• are registered for Goods and Services Tax (GST)

and are one of the following entities:

• an entity, incorporated in Australia
• an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth)
• a company limited by guarantee
• an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust, where your trading activities:
  • form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation’s overall activities as to merit it being described as a trading corporation; or
  • are a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation
• an incorporated association
• an incorporated not for profit organisation or registered charity
• a publicly funded research organisation as defined in section 14 of the grant opportunity guidelines.

You can’t apply if you are:

• an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s list of Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme
• an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)
• an individual
• a Regional Development Australia Committee
• a co-operative
• a partnership
• an unincorporated association
• any organisation not included in section 4.1 of the grant opportunity guidelines
• a trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
• a Commonwealth, state, territory or local government body (including government business enterprises
• a non-corporate Commonwealth entity.

Read the grant opportunity guidelines for more information on eligibility. 

$8,100,000.00

To apply, go to: www.business.gov.au/SBCRS

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