NCRCG and NatWest raise awareness on cyber support for charities

As part of this work, NatWest’s relationship managers supporting charities took part in a webinar to learn more about how to signpost NCRCG’s in-person training and online resources to its customers.

Looking ahead, NatWest intends to expand this to include relationship managers across more industries to benefit more UK SMEs across its broader customer base. This builds on the bank’s own free online courses and webinars that seek to strengthen customers’ cyber security.

NatWest Group is a Founding National Ambassador of NCRCG which along with nine regional, police-led centres across England and Wales, makes up the Cyber Resilience Centre network. Together with its partners, the network’s ambition is to strengthen the cyber defences of SMEs, providing them with trusted and high-quality cyber advice that’s both accessible and proportionate to their needs.

Improving resilience

Chris Ulliott, chief information security officer at NatWest Group, explained: “As cyber security threats become increasingly sophisticated, it’s important we support our customers to equip themselves with the right tools and knowledge to help them improve their resilience. Through greater access to the support available from the National Cyber Resilience Centre Group, as well as our own materials and webinars, business customers should be better able to upskill their teams and strengthen their cyber security.”

Joanna Goddard, CEO at the NCRCG, explained: “We are so pleased to be working with NatWest Group to deliver this campaign, which is aptly timed to coincide with Cyber Security Awareness Month. From the very positive uptake we’ve seen on the staff webinar, it’s clear that staff across the organisation understand the importance of cyber resilience and want to ensure they’re in the best position to support their customers in this arena.”

Goddard concluded: “As one of NCRCG’s Founding National Ambassadors, the team at NatWest Group has been lending its expertise, time and resource to our collective work for several years and their keenness to level-up the country’s cyber resilience position has never wavered.”