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Morning Networking May 2017 -Growing your business

 

Grow Your Business in 10 minutes! – Paul Wreaves is a local business coach and lecturer at Nottingham Business School, NTU gave us a guide on how to grow your business using straightforward tools and show you how to set simple goals and targets that will motivate you to achieve them.

More details on Paul  www.achievebusinesscoaching.com

NBV Grants- our Speaker Lewis Quayle

March Morning Networking –Cybercrime

Gary Bennett Research and Development Manager at Gedling Business Council  came along and spoke about the risks of cyber crime to all businesses

Cyber-crime why bother

• KPMG Estimated the cost to the UK of £1.1 Billion in 2016
• The ONS estimates there were 5.6 Million fraud and computer misuse crimes in the year to June 2016. Two thirds of these involved computers
• The Information Commissioners Office can levy fines of up to £500,000. TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in October 2016
• Attacks can cripple your business, cause loss of sensitive information and reduce trust in your brand

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/24/uk-fraud-record-cybercrime-kpmg http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/01/how-much-of-a-problem-is-cyber-crime-in-the-uk/ https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement

What We Are Seeing

• Phishing – Legitimate looking emails that tricks you into clicking links
• Malware, old style viruses as attachments to emails
• Malware hidden in macros in Word and Excel documents
• Malware hidden in by encryption, such as zip files
• Many of the above are Ransomware
• Cold calls claiming who then talk you into giving remote control of your PC or visit a particular site
• Whaling – A carefully crafted email pretending to come from a senior manager, generally building up to asking for an urgent money transfer
• Attempts to detect holes in firewalls and hack websites

• Cyber Essentials

Advice for the core requirements for protecting a network, covers the basics, which are

–Boundary Firewalls and Gateways

–Secure Configuration

–User Access Control

–Malware Protection

–Patch Management

• There are other related schemes such as 10 Steps to Cyber Security
• Staff awareness can make a big difference
• Backups are essential

https://www.cyberaware.gov.uk/cyberessentials/

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cyber-security-what-small-businesses-need-to-know

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/10-steps-cyber-security

 Other Resources

•  The National Cyber Security Centre Website
• Stay Safer Online Website
• Police Action Fraud Website
• ASafaWeb – Automated Security Analyser for ASP.NET Websites
• SSLLabs – Check the configuration of any public SSL (Secure HTTPS) Website
• MxToolbox – Return information about your email domain including TLS (encryption)

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/

https://staysafeonline.org/

http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/

https://asafaweb.com/

https://www.ssllabs.com/

https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx

 

January Morning Networking

We had a very good meeting despite the cold weather at Bonington Theatre on 12th January . Our speaker was Rachel O’Connor of Wise Self Therapy who gave everyone lots of tips on Mental Well Being .

Networking 8th December

At our last morning networking event of 2016 we had a very good turnout to celebrate a good year for Gedling Business Partnership. Beverley Perkins from www.beverleyperkinsphotographer.co.uk was on hand to take free festive photographs to all who were brave enough to not worry what they looked like at that time in the morning. We also had finsburymedia.com to give a short presentation. They will be speaking more at length in the new year and would like to know what topics are of interest to people. They cover webdesign, SEO, Web hosting and social media so please let u shave any questions you want answering.

The Board got into festive spirit and had their photos taken and

this is what we looked like

November Morning Networking

This month we decided it was time for everyone to really find out what each did . Not just the quick 60 seconds but sitting down and talking to each other. They all got on so well it was hard to get them to stop and move on to another table.

We were also joined by Councillor John Clarke who kept us up to date with latest events in Gedling. The Christmas lights are to be switched on Thursday 24 November 2016 at 6pm in Eagle Square Arnold . There will be  a Craft Fair from 5pm and anyone interested in a stall should contact us.

Julie Beresford from Gedling Borough Council Economic Department gave details on the Erasmus apprenticeship project

October Morning Networking

David Winnett from Hopkins solicitors gave us a very interesting talk n the problems that can arise when employee have matrimonial problems. You may think that these are personal to them but employers must realise how these things can impact in a major way on their businesses. Employees in the middle of a difficult divorce are rarely at their best at work so it is in the interest of an employer to help that employee to find a smooth solution to their difficulties. David is a Collaborative Family Lawyer and Mediator and can help people find solutions with as little pain as is possible in the circumstances.

For those wishing to know more : www.hopkins-solicitors.co.uk

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/11211672/Companies-should-help-workers-who-are-depressed-Iain-Duncan-Smith-says.html

http://alternativedivorcedirectory.co.uk/divorce-in-the-workplace-psychotherapist-caron-barruw/

Royal Mail introduces separation support service