Online security awareness - What does 2023 look like?

We are delighted to have a great group of speakers to support this event.

Mark Moore, is a serving police officer, who has been leading the region’s cyber resilience centre for almost two years now. Part of a Home Office-funded network, the centre aims to plug the gap for SMEs and charities who don’t traditionally engage with cyber services, either out of confusion, apathy, or simply a fear that it’s all too difficult and expensive.

Mark will discuss;

• The role of the cyber resilience centres in supporting small businesses, and growing the cyber sector
• Basic protections for small businesses, and how the CRCs can benefit larger partners too
• The student services pipeline, and how CRCs are helping to support students in cyber roles

Hear from Paul Croker, who during 20+ years’ experience has solved IT challenges for Accountants, Financial and Engineering firms including the UK division of a pan-European Space Company and was part of the joint European CISO team looking after IT security.

18iT provides IT Strategy as a service to the SME market. One of Paul's passions is to help companies understand their cyber risks to minimise the threat of attack. 18iT different approach has helped many small business owners with email migrations and migrations to cloud services ensuring data remains safe and secure.

Paul will be talking about how we can help make your business a “tougher nut to crack” by adding layers of security. Some of these are free and can be enabled today!

• What is MFA?
• Why should I protect my social media accounts? (even my personal one?)
• Patch Management
• Do you have a risk register?

If you have said to yourself – What is that to any of the points above, then you definitely need to attend our straight talking easy to understand session!

Kyne Brooker is the Principal Security Architect at Bosch CyberCompare - UK. Kyne has over ten years of experience in the design and testing of security controls. In addition, he holds the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and the ISO 27001 Lead Auditor certification. He has worked across various industry sectors in the UK, Germany, and Taiwan. This sector experience includes education, electronics, finance, manufacturing, and public services. Before making the career move to cyber security, Kyne’s early technology career was as an engineer in telecommunications equipment design and manufacturing.

Kyne will discuss.

• An Introduction to Cyber Security Certification Schemes.
• An Introduction to Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials +.
• An Introduction to ISO27001.
• Common pitfalls to avoid when going for Cyber Certifications,
• and a brief primer on strategies to choose a certification body.