The National Cyber Security Centre, the Midlands Centre for Cyber Security and the award winning Cyber Crime Awareness Clinic have come together to deliver another lively discussion and update on building an effective Cyber Incident Response Plan :

• What are the current online risks for you and for your business or organisation
• What does a data breach look like and what action should you take
• Why having an incident response plan is vital for your business

Agenda:

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome

9:15 - 9.30 Introduction to Cyber Quarter and SOLVD

9:30- 10:00 NCSC Cyber update & Global Cyber Threat situation

10:00 -11.15 Online Incident and Response Planning Workshop delivered by the Cyber Crime Awareness Clinic and Dr Vasileios Karagiannopoulous (University of Portsmouth) who will provide:

Top tips to build an effective Cyber Incident Response Plan for your organisation to help keep your business working and safe in a digital world

This session will discuss the importance of incident response planning, the relevant challenges and pitfalls and will provide advice and guidance on how to best design a suitable and efficient response plan by assessing core organisational characteristics and assets and related risks.

11:15-11:30 Q and A and further discussion as required

The NCSC Cyber Awareness Clinics for businesses are aimed at providing you with as much knowledge as possible to protect your business online and it is a reality today that data breaches and cyber-incidents are a possibility even for the most secure organisations.

It is therefore crucial for all organisations that there is a predetermined plan for dealing with cyber incidents, especially in a post-COVID-19 era, where many businesses have transitioned to a hybrid offline/online modus operandi.

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is the UK’s national technical authority on cyber security for the public and private sector. It was established in 2016 to provide a unified source of advice, guidance to make the UK the safest place to live and work online.

Dr. Vasilis Karagiannopoulos is a Reader in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies (ICJS), University of Portsmouth.

Vas graduated from Athens Law School and completed an LLM in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law and a PhD in Law at the University of Strathclyde. He is currently the Director of the Cybercrime Awareness Clinic, which was recently awarded a National Cyber Awareness Award in the National Cyber Awards 2020 sponsored by the National Police Chiefs’ Council. He has also developed and led the launch of the innovative BSc in Criminology and Cybercrime in 2018 and has published in national and international academic journals and magazines on various cyber-related issues. He is currently working on national and international Clinic projects funded by the EU Commission, the National Cyber Security Centre and the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats.