The Australian Cyber Security Centre's annual reporting for FY2024–25 records 1,200-plus incidents responded to (an 11% year-on-year increase) and over 1,700 alerts issued — an 83% surge on the prior period. For Australian SMBs, the headline is simple: the ACSC's workload is growing because the underlying activity is growing.
The ACSC's alert pipeline is also one of the cheapest, highest-quality intelligence feeds available to Australian businesses. Subscribing to cyber.gov.au alerts, monitoring the ACSC threat updates, and acting on the published advisories costs nothing and routinely surfaces issues weeks before they appear in mainstream coverage.
A practical baseline for any SMB: subscribe to ACSC alerts; nominate someone to triage them weekly; have a process for escalating relevant items to the IT provider; document the response. It's the unglamorous discipline that separates organisations that get blindsided from organisations that get a heads-up.