Silicon UK In Focus Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Silicon UK In Focus Podcast brings your business the latest insights and analysis across the technologies that impact your enterprise. Learn which technologies will shape your company. What technology trends your company needs to pay attention to.
The Silicon UK Editor-in-Chief, David Howell is your host. His work over the past 30 years has appeared in the national press and a diverse range of business and technology publications.
Do businesses need a radical change in how they approach access security? Does a shift away from user responsibility – particularly with the generation and security of passwords – offer post-pandemic enterprises stronger digital security?
Is the definition of a ‘connected business’ very different today than it was just two years ago? And how can businesses embrace technology to enable them to connect with their customers and commercial partners?
Chris Tucci is a Professor of Digital Strategy and Innovation at Imperial College Business School where he head’s the School’s Centre for Digital Transformation – designed to help businesses understand the far-reaching organisational implications of the digital revolution – something which has been of vital importance for the past 15 months due to the pandemic.
How do sustainable businesses use technology to innovate? And as businesses want to connect sustainability to their ESG, can technology help them achieve that goal? Katie Mills, Head of Sustainable Development & Innovation UK & Ireland at Schneider Electric outlines her views on the latest Silicon UK In Focus Podcast.
How has Saas become an essential component of a successful business? The importance of a robust and expansive data lake plays in the SaaS model. Understand what it takes to build and maintain a sufficient data lake – the challenges, the team required, and other business considerations to making it work.
Is SaaS still a foundation onto which businesses continue to build their processes? And why did HP move to a service company? Listen to learn how your business could further embrace SaaS to transform your company’s processes.
Learn how businesses can develop robust security for their remote workforces. Also, businesses are re-drawing their digital transformation roadmaps to include IoT, 5G, and Edge Computing, are burgeoning technologies that will touch every enterprise. Discover how security connects to these development strategies?
What general impact has the pandemic had on workforce management? And how are businesses now using digital tools to manage their dispersed workforces?
As a new form of communication that does not require the internet or cellular data, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) could offer businesses a new channel to evolve how they communicate across their enterprises. In this Silicon UK In Focus Podcasts, Matthew Hodgson, CEO and co-founder of Element, explains how P2P secure enterprise collaboration and messaging.
Mobile devices are so central to our personal and business lives, are the issues around digital identity about to be resolved with new legislation? Businesses are rapidly embracing AI and what this can potentially do for their businesses and customers. What care needs to be taken with using this technology when we consider identity?
What the pandemic showed many businesses was that their networks were lacking in some fundamental areas such as security and the ability to offer efficient connections at scale. How has the pandemic fundamentally changed how enterprises now see the networks they use?
The pandemic catapulted digital transformation up the priority list with 77% of CEOs surveyed by Fortune and Deloitte reporting digital transformation plans accelerated in response to COVID.
Yet, with McKinsey estimating that around 70% of digital transformation projects
fail, C-suite leaders need to be cautious as they embark on change initiatives. To increase probability of programme success, leaders need to understand the common pitfalls and
challenges initiatives face, from planning to implementation.
With businesses still experiencing the disruption to their operations and supply chains due to the pandemic, research commissioned by leading global business decisioning data and analytics provider Dun & Bradstreet has found that over half (52%) of European businesses surveyed don’t think they will survive without relevant, up-to-date and compliant business data.
Furthermore, with the pandemic continuing to disrupt supply chains globally, six in ten businesses surveyed are using data to assess risk (65%) and monitor procurement and supply (62%).
Silicon DE im Fokus: Security Awareness
Die besten technischen Maßnahmen für die IT-Sicherheit nützen nichts, wenn ahnungslose Angestellte auf jeden Trick der Hacker hereinfallen. Um dies zu vermeiden, ist es dringend erforderlich, das Sicherheitsbewusstsein oder auf Englisch die Security Awareness jedes Einzelnen zu stärken.
Im Podcast mit Carolina Heyder erklärt Anna Collard, Geschäftsführerin von Popcorn Training, einem KnowBe4-Unternehmen, wie wichtig der menschliche Faktor in einer Sicherheitsstrategie ist und was getan werden sollte, um das Bewusstsein für Sicherheit in Belegschaft und Management zu wecken.
Sie schildert die Gefahr, dass Sicherheits-Admins und der Rest der Belegschaft aneinander vorbei reden und erläutert, wie gefährlich Phishing und Business E-Mail Compromise sowie Deep Fakes und Vishing sind.
Frau Collard gibt Ratschläge, wie verhindert werden kann, dass Sicherheitstrainings als lästige Pflichtübung empfunden werden und wie anschauliche Videos, spannende Stories und Gamification dabei helfen, Vorbehalte zu überwinden und wie Automatisierung die IT-Abteilung entlastet.
Zur Person:
Anna Collard ist derzeit Geschäftsführerin von Popcorn Training, einem KnowBe4-Unternehmen, wo sie das Sicherheitsbewusstsein auf dem gesamten afrikanischen Kontinent fördert.
Sie ist seit 18 Jahren als Sicherheitsarchitektin und -beraterin im Bereich
Cybersicherheit tätig und hat Organisationen in Südafrika, Europa und den USA
unterstützt. Collard gründete das Unternehmen Popcorn Training, das jetzt zu
KnowBe4 gehört, ein südafrikanisches Unternehmen, das das Bewusstsein für
Cybersicherheit fördert, indem es innovative, auf Geschichten basierende
Techniken und Gamification einsetzt, um komplexe Inhalte einfach zu verstehen
und leicht zu merken.
Sie wurde mit dem Women in Tech Innovations Throughout Africa 2020 Award für das südliche und zentrale Afrika ausgezeichnet. Collard ist Inhaberin verschiedener
Sicherheitszertifikate, darunter CISSP, CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, CIPP/IT
und war früher Visa/Mastercard PCI DSS QSA.
Vor Ihrer Zeit bei Popcorn Training war sie zehn Jahre lang bei Dimension Date tätig, zunächst in München und später in Südafrika. Sie hat am European Business College Munich
studiert.
The Global Gender Inclusive Benefit will provide transgender and non-binary employees with the critical financial and emotional support they deserve. These industry-leading benefits were designed in partnership with Outforce, Salesforce’s LGBTQ+ employee resource group.
Salesforce is also redefining how its teams work together with Flex Team Agreements, empowering teams to decide how, when, and where they work including how many days a week they come into the office and what kind of work they’ll continue to do at home. Teams can also decide how they communicate and what behaviours are most important to them.
Staying one step ahead of cyber attackers takes a special kind of mindset. You need to think like an attacker to anticipate their next move, have razor-sharp analytical
skills and thrive on the unpredictability of spotting anything in the
customer’s infrastructure that looks unusual.
Threat hunters operate in the eye of the cyber storm and tackle the daily challenge of fighting cybercriminals on the frontlines, by discovering and shutting down potential attack techniques. No two days are the same but with organisations at constant risk of a potential attack, their skillset is much in demand.
What does it take to succeed in this role and what are the most rewarding aspects of the
job?
Today’s consumer is more well informed, and demanding than ever before. With unlimited information, exposure to the opinions of a vast network of contacts, and the ability to rapidly place, amend, and cancel orders at the touch of a button, we’re in an unprecedented world of on-demand consumer expectations.
Today we are speaking with Cyrus Gilbert-Rolfe, the Chief Revenue Officer for EVRYTHNG who help consumer brands run their business differently for a smarter, more sustainable, and accountable world. EVRYTHING connects product data at every point in the lifecycle using real-time, trusted information to enable supply chain transparency, brand protection and consumer engagement.
Today we are speaking to Joanne Thurlow, Head of IT for Siemens Energy, Industrial Application Solutions. She partners with business providing strategic, innovative, cost sensitive and engineering-centric, global IT environments.
Also, Joanne commits her time to providing leadership, inspiration, motivation, strategic
consulting, and market insights through various avenues: As a Digital Isle of
Man Executive board member; committee member of LOVE TECH Joanne is committed
to promoting STEM careers for girls and young women.
Learn what have been the major automation trends that have shaped workplace productivity over the past year. How organisations responded to the pandemic by shifting their priorities in automation to boost efficiency, increase sales conversion rates and manage their finances more closely.
In this week’s podcast, we focus on the recently published report: Digital Economy and
Climate Impact from Scheider Electric. We are also considering how Schneider
Electric are innovating in the energy space.
In this week’s podcast we focus on the recently published report from Thomas
International: ‘Mind the trust gap’ that reveals 85% of UK businesses need to critically
improve recruitment processes, with 77% saying they need to improve the way they assess the value and skills people bring to the business.
As the Biden administration creates a national AI task force, how will AI develop over the
next few years? And how will these developments be managed to ensure safety and
ethics are maintained?
The Open University (OU) has jointly published a report with Be the Business titled Skills for Success: supporting business leaders with digital adoption. The research involved surveying 1,500 business leaders of SMEs from across the UK and listening to the
experiences of businesses which have needed to make drastic changes to adapt to
the challenges presented by the pandemic.
As businesses strive to rebuild following the challenges of the past year, technical debt has emerged as a major roadblock to innovation and recovery, especially for enterprises focused on growth. Technical debt is a technical design or development choice made for short-term benefit with long-term consequences. Across industries, this results from the
development of solutions implemented quickly to maximise speed, rather than
optimising for the future. Based on a global survey of 500 IT leaders, the OutSystems report highlights the challenges companies face as they confront the many causes of technical debt, including pressure to meet deadlines, constant change in the marketplace, and outdated technology.
The UK lags behind in global and European rankings for data and technology skills, according to Coursera’s latest Global Skills Report (GSR). The UK placed 34th globally in
data skills and 47th in technology skills, lagging behind much of Western Europe
and placing lower overall compared to last year’s report. GSR draws on performance data since the pandemic's onset from more than 77 million learners on the platform to benchmark skills proficiency across businesses, technology, and data science for over 100 countries. For the first time, the Global Skills Report also reveals
the top skills needed for high-demand entry-level jobs, including the learning
hours required to develop them.
The recent publication of Robert Half’s Demand for Skilled Talent report, produced in association with Burning Glass Technologies, spotlights the growth in employer demand for new ‘hybrid’ skills across the UK. Silicon UK spoke with Duncan Smorfitt, Division Manager, Technology and Marketing at Robert Half in this week’s Silicon UK In Focus Podcast.