Cyber Crime: How can we protect our businesses?
Please join us for face-to-face October Business Breakfast Networking at The Watermill, Dorking. Remember to bring plenty of business cards with you!
Our speaker this month is, Detective Superintendent Patrick Milford, from The South East Cyber Resilience Center talking about cyber crime threats
Patrick will be presenting an overview of cyber crime threats, practical steps and signposting to making organisations more cyber secure, and how the South East Cyber Resilience Centre can help and support your organisation in this journey.
The South East Cyber Resilience Centre is a police-led partnership with academia and businesses aimed at improving cyber resilience in businesses in the South East of England.
Using a combination of police officers and cyber talent, the Cyber Resilience Centre for the South East supports and helps protect small business, SMEs and supply chain businesses and third sector organisations in the region against cyber crime.
The National Cybercrime Programme created the South East Cyber Resilience Centre which is a not for profit, police, private, and academic partnership to tackle fraud and cyber crime providing a solution to help businesses protect themselves in a digital age.
About the seaker
Patrick was appointed Director of the SECRC in May 2024. Patrick joined Devon and Cornwall Police in 1997 after graduating from Queen Mary’s University London. He joined CID in 2000 and transferred to the Metropolitan Police Service in 2004, where he worked in a variety of investigative roles, the majority of which were within specialist crime. Patrick was an SIO on one of the Met Police’s Homicide teams.
Patrick transferred to Kent Police in 2018 he worked extensively in Essex and Kent Serious Crime Directorate working as head of Serious and Organised Crime, and Head of Major, Economic and Cyber Crime. Patrick has led on numerous complex homicide investigations and was instrumental in developing a series of proactive responses to fraud and cybercrime which were adopted nationally.
Patrick is an accredited Senior Investigating Officer (SIO), and a Strategic Investigator and brings a wealth of experience to the SECRC.
7:30am arrival for an 8:00am breakfast which will finish at 9:30am.
£15.00 Mole Valley & Surrey Chambers Members
£20.00 Non-Members
About this event
The Chamber’s monthly Networking Breakfasts are very popular, so do book early. Business people from the Mole Valley district and the surrounding areas come together to meet, eat and network in the third week of each month.
There is a wide range of people who attend from all sectors and all sizes. From sole traders and start-ups, to some of the biggest businesses in the district.
Each month there is a guest speaker, who talk about their own experiences of running a business and their own personal journey or give an insight into their particular skills and sector.
What you can expect:
- Enjoy an excellent breakfast with like-minded people.
- Make new connections through our informal networking.
- Get an introduction if there’s someone you’d like to meet.
- Find new local customers and suppliers.
If it is your first breakfast or you haven’t attended in a while the Chamber Directors are always on hand to make introductions.
Bookings must be made and paid-for online ahead of the event.
We do hope you will join us, and look forward to seeing you there!
Are you a local business in the Mole Valley District and interested in joining the chamber? Find out more here.
