Mark de Rijk

Dear listeners, thank you for tuning in for the next episode of the SME Business podcast. Today we are joined by Jonathan Sun. Mark and Jonathan are also members of Mentors and Mentees. Jonathan is the founder of Nifty. Nifty helps entrepreneurs validate ideas.

Mark de Rijk

Jonathan, welcome to the podcast.

Jonathan Sun

Thanks for having me.

Mark de Rijk

Yes, of course, perhaps some questions for you that I would like to ask to help discover more about you. That will help our listeners discover what you do and where you are in the journey…

Mark de Rijk

Hi, dear listeners, thank you for tuning in for the next episode of the SME business podcast. Today we are joined by Jared Huke. Jared is the CEO of Daito Design, the premier firm that helps the energy industry on the areas of digital transformation, user experience, UX and renewable energy.

Mark de Rijk

Jared started his first design firm at the age of 20 after the dotcom bubble burst. He spent over a decade travelling in countries such as Vietnam, Sweden and China. He’s a lecturer at the University of Texas as well on the subject…

Mark de Rijk

Hi people today we welcome Steven Benson to the show. Steven is the CEO of Badger Maps. Badger Maps helps field reps sell 20 to 25 per cent more. He also hosts “outside sales talk” the number one podcast for outside sales reps. Check the link in the show notes. In addition, he’s the president of the Sales Hall of Fame and a LinkedIn learning instructor to boot. Thank you, Steven, for joining me today.

Steven Benson

Yeah, Mark, thanks for having me on. I’m glad to be here.

Mark de Rijk

so, yeah, I was like…

With plenty of data providing the evidence that attacks are getting more commonplace, and the impacts are also increasing, it’s only logical for us to lead from our experience of dealing with startups but also large enterprises.

With technology being the bedrock (or platform if you will) of pretty much any startup we feel it’s only fair that cybersecurity best practices are available to access for startups as well.

That way, any startup can make use of a set of best practices to provide protection today and not until they have secured substantial funding when the organization has grown extensively.

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Some sobering statistics on small business impacts

A startup like regular smaller companies has competing priorities for the amount of money to spend on cybersecurity. At the same time, it goes through growing pains going from a small team blossoming into the large enterprise of tomorrow.

This doesn’t mean that a startup doesn’t encounter any cybersecurity risk.

There is still a need to manage cybersecurity risk, even if the systems are all in the cloud.

Depending on what platforms and software you use and advanced technologies like IoT and artificial intelligence, you are operating.

Doing so doesn’t require an extensive program of work with a consultancy providing…