THE "BUSINESS" OF CYBER CRIME

The UK's internet economy is one of the strongest in the world, international and domestic cyber criminals increasingly view UK-based businesses and private individuals as attractive targets for a range of cyber crime. In 2015 the Office of National Statistics estimated that there were 2.46 million cyber incidents and 2.11 million victims of cyber crime in the UK.

As business owners you need to do more than protect your own business from Cyber Threats but you need to protect the data you hold on your clients.

Protecting data is wider than cyber. We need to ensure that only those with permission to see it can, it is kept up to date and it is available when required. So we need to consider the physical protection of data and also ensure that data is managed and used correctly.

NatWest Bank would like to invite you to a Cyber Security Seminar and are delighted to be working with the industry to give you a full insight into protecting yourself from different types of cyber threats and the importance of your business being cyber secure.

Agenda for the day

9.30 –
Registration, refreshments and light breakfast

10:00 –
Introduction by Matthew Jenkins (Business Growth Enabler)

10:10 -

Detective Sergeant Gary Sirrell is a Cyber Protect Officer within the West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit (WMROCU). WMROCU has the responsibility of protecting the communities in the West Midlands from serious organised crime. At this workshop, Gary will be talking about the current cyber threat landscape, and the UK Cyber Strategy, whilst also providing some local case studies.

10:40 –

Peter Loomes – Peter has over 30 years experience in the IT industry working across government and private industries. In recent years as Director of Sandettie, he has specialised in assisting businesses adopt new approaches to managing information security and privacy matters - Peter will look why security and data protection need to be considered together. The new data protection regulation which comes into effect in May 2018 aims to unify and simplify business across Europe, which involves using personal data. And will be explaining how this will be achieved. Looking at the main components of GDPR and what businesses need to be doing now. This will include looking at some of the certifications that will assist becoming GDPR compliant.

11:10 – Chris Pinder – ISAME

IASME is a leading Accreditation Body appointed for assessing and certifying against Cyber Essentials. IASME was one of three non-governmental organisations invited to participate in the drafting of the scheme and has consistently led the way in certificating organisations to the scheme. IASME also operates its own governance scheme which has recently been enhanced to include optional assessment against GDPR requirements

Chris will give an overview of the Government backed Cyber Essentials business certification scheme. Cyber Essentials was introduced by government to address the five most important controls identified by government as those which, if they’d been in place, would have stopped the majority of cyber attacks over the last few years. This presentation will outline those five core areas deemed to be of prime importance

11:30 – Gemma Beardmore & Anish Chauhan - Equilibrium Security

Equilibrium Security is a specialist Cyber Security consultancy firm based in Birmingham City Centre. They work with businesses to protect their most important asset their data. Equilibrium Security has a proven industry track record. They have implemented multi-tiered infrastructure security solutions for many large organisations including NHS trusts, financial organisations, and legal firms.

Equilibrium will run a Live Hack Demonstration to show how easy it is for Cyber Criminals to access your data. They will then provide steps that you can take to protect your data and how they can support your business to protect you from cyber threats.

12:00 - Close and Networking