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

Ross from the SWCRC is talking to Chris Burn from CSRB Limited all about GDPR.  CSRB have a head office in Bristol and a further office in Manchester. Chris fulfils Data Protection Officer roles for organisations across the UK, providing advice to charities, solopreneurs, micro businesses, SMEs, all the way through to blue chip organisations. Chris also has a wealth of commercial and professional experience and undertakes monthly CPD training to ensure all data protection advice given is accurate, compliant, concise, relevant, and offers business owners peace of mind. 
So buckle up and enjoy 20 minutes of plain speaking on how to make GDPR painless.

This podcast is led by Prof. John Goodacre: University of Manchester who is here to tell us all about the UK Research and Innovation 

John is Professor of Computer Architectures at the Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester in the UK having previously spent 17 years with Arm Ltd as the Director of Technology and Systems where he defined and introduced the first multicore processors and other core technologies. He is also appointed by UK government's Research & Innovation agency as the Director of the Digital Security by Design Challenge Fund, a £200M programme to enable industry and researchers to create a step change in approach to cybersecurity, blocking vulnerabilities by design and protecting the operation and data by default. His research interest include web-scale servers, exascale efficient systems and secure and ubiquitous computing.
The UK’s National Cyber Strategy realises that the unsustainable “react and patch” approach to cyber security today, is not enough to shift the needle against cybercrime.
UK Government acknowledge that it is imperative that businesses move to ensure products are delivered to be more secure by design.  
The continuous cycle of patching and mitigating vulnerabilities is at the core of today’s organisation’s strategy to protect their cyber-attack surface. 

Cybercriminals only need to be right once, while defenders need to be right all the time. 

The Digital Security by Design Challenge (DSbD), run by UKRI, is rethinking how computers are built to be inherently more secure from cyber-attacks.

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