Cyber Security: What Your Business Needs to Know
A presentation at LCCC: Cyber Security Webinar - Protecting Your Business by Simon Whittaker
Digi-Growth Programme Cyber Security Webinar © Vertical Structure 2020
Prepare, Protect, Persist ® Prepare • We help you and your partners to understand how to identify and resolve potential security issues at the earliest stages with hands on ‘hack yourself first’, threat modelling and GDPR compliance workshops as well as security training for non-technical colleagues. Protect • Using automated and manual penetration testing techniques, we provide a comprehensive security report for your Web and mobile applications, including API testing, and networks. The report highlights potential issues and their resolutions. Persist • We ensure that your organisation benefits from continual improvements in security levels through information assurance processes, auditing and certification including ISO27001:2013 and Cyber Essentials.
Speakers Simon Whittaker – Cyber Security Director - Vertical Structure The majority of my work involves working with companies to perform penetration & security testing, test and improve secure coding practices and provide security consultancy to companies that are keen to improve their processes & procedures. [email protected]
This workshop will be delivered virtually through Go To Webinar. You will get the joining link via email one week before the event.
This workshop will include:
- Overview of why cyber security is and why SMEs need to have it on their radar. NI Cyber Security Centre – Joe Dolan
- Cyber security laws – the legal and compliance landscape. Carson McDowell – Peter Lamont
- Practical steps the business can take to protect against cyber security breaches, Cyphra – Conrad Simpson
- Technical security introduction to key terms and uses : firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection / prevention. Vertical Structure – Simon Whittaker
- Threat landscape: terminology, current cyber security threats, keeping up to date. Proofpoint – Tom Keating
- Q&A
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