About Breach Response
Breach Response is a collective of experienced web and application developers based in Melbourne. We publish free security content and guides, free to use and share, to help local businesses stay safe and to respond well if a breach happens. Sponsored by Lightning Ventures as a free public initiative. Lightning Ventures is a Melbourne-based agency building AI integrations, custom software and workflow automation for Australian businesses.
Our team
Breach Response is run by a collective of experienced web and application developers based in Melbourne. We build and maintain websites and applications for a living, so our guides focus on the practical steps owners and their IT providers can take.
Dave McManus
Director, Lightning Ventures
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Free to use and share
Our guides are free to use and share. You can pass them to your staff, your board or your IT provider. Guide content is licensed under CC BY 4.0: share and adapt it, with credit to Breach Response.
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Sources we rely on
We summarise and link to official and industry sources. Breach Response is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any of these organisations.
- Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC): privacy law and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme.
- Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), cyber.gov.au: incident reporting and cyber security advice.
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.
- NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD): CVE details and severity scores.
How we write
- Every obligation or figure links to its original source, such as the OAIC, cyber.gov.au, legislation or vendor advisories.
- We do not speculate about breaches. News covers only publicly reported incidents, with attributed wording.
- Pages show a last-reviewed date and are general information, not legal advice.
Journalists: see our media kit.
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