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This podcast is titled  Dealing with the basics, what you really need to know.
Ross Brown from The SWCRC is joined in this episode Paul Croker. Paul is the CIO and Director of 18it  an IT compnay based in Bristol.  Paul believes every business needs a strategy. and that your IT needs to align and empower your staff. 18iT aligns your IT to your business plan delivering successful outcomes.
This episode really does take us back to basics and is aimed at those who are new  to cyber security or need a refresh. We look at what makes a good password, how to back up data to the cloud, and how inexpensive this can be particularly when set against less reliable backup means, as well as loads of the other useful hints and tips.

As always tanks to Richard Smithson and his music from the album Upbeat

Megan is a Cyber Protect Officer with Avon and Somerset Police. In this episode she talks to Ross Brown from the SWCRC about what her role entails as well as how to make your business safer online. She also talks about fraud prevention measures. There are Cyber Protect Officers in each force area should you need to contact them. 



Thanks to Richard Smithson and his music from the album Upbeat

Ross Brown SWCRC and Sarah who is a senior leader in cyber security and Deputy Director of the National Cyber Security Centre discuss how the NCSC supports local businesses.

 Sarah has responsibility for Economy and Society Resilience. The Economy and Society team leads on interactions with charities, Small and Medium-sized businesses, academic institutions, wider economic sectors, as well as citizens. Sarah has been working in cyber security since 2010 and has grown the Economy and Society team from scratch when the NCSC was formed. She has also led the NCSC’s cyber security support to HMG’s COVID-19 response and the Critical National Infrastructure Resilience team.

Thanks to Richard Smithson and his music from the album Upbeat

This podcast is titled  Responding to a Ransomware Attack – An introduction to Threat Actors Comms

 Ross Brown from the SWCRC is joined in this episode by Gurvinder Dhiman. Gurvinder is a Senior Digital Forensics Incident Response (DFIR) Analyst, based out of Kivu’s London office. With extensive experience in cyber security particually around digital forensics, incident response, security consulting, threat hunting, cyber intelligence, and proactive computer network defense solutions and services. He has worked in a variety of industries, including retail, insurance, medical, technology and government. Gurvinder has received multiple awards throughout his career for his tehnical skills and outstanding client realtionship management.

We talk extensively on how to deal with a Ransomware attack. This is really worth a listen as it is a subject that is not often discussed.

Thanks to Richard Smithson and his music from the album Upbeat

This Episode of the South West Cyber Beat is all about supply Chains.  What is a supply chain, how they are vulnerable to Cyber Attack and how you can secure your Supply Chains. 
We stress the importance of how everyone in a supply is potentially vulnerable so it is not just you who may suffer and therefore it is important that everyone plays their part in securing them. 
We refer to the case study of Kaseya, an IT solutions developer that was the victim of a cyberattack in 2021 over the American Independence Day weekend. The attack was carried out as a supply chain ransomware attack by leveraging a vulnerability in Kaseya's VSA software against multiple managed service providers and their customers.

 Thanks to Richard Smithson and his music from the album Upbeat

We are once again Joined by Olly Jones. Thanks go to Olly who is a Senior Cyber Security Consultant with  Protection Group International, they are a Digital Risk Management Consultancy who specialise in digital security, capacity building and digital investigations.
 The Podcast will help you to understand the balance to be had between human and technology security awareness. He stressed that one shouldnt inhibit the other and how businesses should carry out staff awareness training 
In conclusion Olly gives you some easily applied and practical ways to keep your business safer online. 

Thanks to Richard Smithson and his music from the album Upbeat

In 2021, over £57M was lost to scams that involved criminals remotely connecting to a victim's computer. This episode is all Remote Access Trojans (RAT's) timed to coincide with a National Campaign from  the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau to highlight Remote Access Tool Scams. 
RAT's are stealthy programmes that allow an attacker to carry out a range of remote functions on a network, including installing backdoors and exfiltrating data. Sam P our guest speaker this week is a Cyber Protect and Prepare Officer form the South West Regional Cyber Crime Unit. She tells us what RAT's are and how to maintain vigilance and how to protect  against them.
Don't forget Never allow remote access to your computer following an unsolicited call, text message or browser pop-up. It’s probably a scam.

 Thanks to Richard Smithson and his music from the album Upbeat

Ross Brown this week talks to Keith Buzzard CTO of Protection Group International about Penetration Testing (PT) and Vulnerability Assessments(VA).  We discuss amongst other things when is the right time to conduct a VA as well as the merits of black box versus white box PT. In conclusion Keith discusses what good PT systems look like and what you should look for.


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As so many of us are still working form home Lucy from C3iA Solutions Ltd joins us to talk about the threats when working from home. She introduces social engineering, which is how criminals deceive you into divulging confidential details. She also tells us how to detect suspicious emails and concludes with top tips on how to stay secure when working from home.
C3iA Solutions are  a leading provider of secure ICT, technical programme management and information security services and solutions for small to medium businesses.



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Ross Brown this week talks to Keith Buzzard CTO of Protection Group International about the different types of Cyber Attack. With the current situation developing between Russia nd Ukraine and with a heightened threat of Cyber Attacks as a result this Podcast has never been more relevant. Keith gives practical advice on the attacks themselves, how to mitigate them and most importantly staff awareness. 


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Richard Andreae from SUPPORTAL UK who is an IASME certified provider of Cyber Essentials (CE) and Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+) talks to Ross Brown from the South West Cyber Resilience Centre about the real benefits of becoming accredited in CE and CE+.
These accreditations are Government backed and show you your customers and your supply chain that you are doing as much as you can to keep their data which you hold secure. All of this is geared toward the micro and SME market.

Our entire approach to running IT projects is based on an unspoken assumption that is so deeply engrained in our culture it’s treated as a given. There’s only one problem with this assumption—it’s wrong. Humans are not rational actors who control their thoughts and actions. We don’t control our brain. Our brain controls us in ways, and to an extent, we never imagined. Part one of this episode begins to unpack this discovery and explain its consequences.

Continue to Part 2

Suggested readings:

• “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” by Malcolm Gladwell
• “Thinking Fast & Slow” by Daniel Kahneman
• “How We Decide” by Jonah Lehrer
• “Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst” by Robert Sapolsky
• “The Brain: The Story of You” by David Eagleman
• “Incognito” by David Eagleman
• “The paradox of human expertise: why experts get it wrong” by Itiel E. Dror
• “Subliminal” by Leonard Mlodinow
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These podcasts are dedicated to bridging the gap between business & IT. Each episode looks at different aspects of this relationship as we explore ways to help the two groups better communicate. We're passionate about this topic because it's a failure to communicate that causes 75% of all IT project failures and costs the US $1.8 Trillion every year—8% of US GDP!

If you don't want to become one of these statistics and want to learn about an easy way to avoid it, please visit our website and schedule a free consultation.

Alternatively, if there's some topic you'd like to hear more about, or you have an idea about how we might better serve our listeners, please shoot us an email at dave@bridgingbusinessit.com. We'd love to hear from you.

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Bill lives & breathes small business. 

He takes us through his work as Executive Director of Small Business Australia https://www.smallbusinessaustralia.org/ which has a simple philosophy that he believes boils down to three things;

1. To see things simpler
2. To see things fairer, and
3. To see things better

In this episode Bill talks about;

• His own small business background, including the legendary Doctor Dog, founding fathers of the Melbourne street food scene
• What he learnt at Harvard University that is useful to all small business owners
• What small business owners can do to educate themselves and improve their business performance
• His top tips to survive challenges brought on by Covid19
• The importance of communicating with staff, suppliers, financiers and others important to the business
• The important role that small businesses have in local communities
• The #buylocalcampaign recently launched by Small Business Australia
• Where to find financial support for your small business and especially the new  traineeship opportunities https://www.smallbusinessaustralia.org/traineeship-opportunities/
• The "Five-step Small Business Survival Guide"
• The benefits of joining Small Business Australia https://www.smallbusinessaustralia.org/get-involved/

Thanks for listening.  Visit the Small Business Banter website to subscribe, listen back, or check out any resources or information mentioned on the show.

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Reach out to Michael Kerr via the website if you need personal assistance or advice for your small business.

michael.kerr@kerrcapital.com.au

www.smallbusinessbanter.com.au

Bec talks about how Tielka got started and where it is today. There were up's and down's along the way. She talks openly about her personal approach to dealing with the challenges that arose when personal and business priorities intersected. It's a family business and we also talk about how to get the most from the unique talents of business and family partners,

Tielka participated in GrowCoastal, a food accelerator program, run by the Innovation Centre at SCU Sippy Downs for food businesses that show high potential for growth, product innovation and entrepreneurial tenacity,

There are exciting times ahead for the tea industry and Tielka.

We also cover;

#organictea
#tearituals
#startups
#seachange
#incubators
#regionalaustralia
#movingabusinessfromonestatetoanotherandonlymissingacoupleofbeats
#ruralandregionalaustralia
#communityradio
#sme
#smallbusinesses

Thanks for listening.  Visit the Small Business Banter website to subscribe, listen back, or check out any resources or information mentioned on the show.

Search @SmallBusinessBanter on your favorite podcast player to subscribe and listen to the episodes.

Reach out to Michael Kerr via the website if you need personal assistance or advice for your small business.

michael.kerr@kerrcapital.com.au

www.smallbusinessbanter.com.au