NCRCG is pleased to welcome Aviva on board as an NCRCG National Ambassador.
Established over 300 years ago, Aviva is one of the UK’s leading Insurance, Wealth and Retirement businesses and serves over 18 million customers. In taking up this role, Aviva will be working closely with our cadre of National Ambassadors, policing and government to help drive a commitment to cyber resilience throughout the UK economy.
Speaking on NCRCG podcast CyberVersed, Stephen Ridley, Head of Cyber at Aviva said:
“SMEs make up the vast majority of businesses in the UK. From a cyber perspective specifically, that’s the area where I feel that we are able to add more value to SMEs, where there is a greater need to have our involvement and where we can make a much more meaningful difference for them.
“Bigger businesses have much more in the way of resource, capability and understanding in this space but it’s SMEs where we see there being the biggest knowledge gap. That’s the segment, for example, that buys cyber insurance at the lowest frequency. We see it as being part of our corporate responsibility to help move the dial.”
Detective Superintendent Ian Kirby, CEO at NCRCG said:
“It is fantastic to welcome Aviva into the NCRCG fold as a National Ambassador. Together with our suite of National Ambassador partners, they will be working with government and policing to further strengthen the CRC network and develop our growing talent pipeline, Cyber PATH.
“Our focus at NCRCG is in embedding cyber resilience across the SME community however, to achieve this, it is vital that we are learning from the experiences and insights of larger organisations, which is why our National Ambassador programme is essential to our mission.
“It is not an option to take an isolated approach to cyber resilience and so it is excellent to see a prominent organisation like Aviva showing their commitment to tackling cyber crime and working with us to lead this charge from the front.”
You can listen to our full podcast episode with Aviva here: https://nationalcrcgroup.co.uk/cyberversed-podcast/
