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The Small Business Cyber Security Guy | Cybersecurity for SMB & Startups

The Small Business Cyber Security Guy

The UK"s leading small business cybersecurity podcast, helping SMEs protect against cyber threats without breaking the bank. Join cybersecurity veterans Noel Bradford (CIO at Boutique Security First MSP) and Mauven MacLeod (ex-UK Government Cyber Analyst) as they translate enterprise-level security expertise into practical, affordable solutions for UK small businesses.🎯 WHAT YOU"LL LEARN: Cyber Essentials certification guidance Protecting against ransomware & phishing attacks GDPR compliance

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All Episodes

10:00

114 Updates, 1 Active Exploit — January Patch...

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2026/01/14

Hosted by Graham Falkner, this episode is a rapid, no‑nonsense January Patch Tuesday breakdown aimed at small businesses and IT owners. Graham walks listeners through Microsoft’s unusually large release of 114 security updates, explains the essential jargon (CVE and CVSS), and highlights why severity scores don’t replace real‑world risk assessments.The show covers the one vulnerability already being actively exploited (CVE‑2026‑2805 in Desktop Window Manager) and two other high‑risk items used in

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27:14

UK Government Admits Cyber Chaos — 28% of Systems...

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2026/01/12

In this episode of the Small Business Cybersecurity Guy, host Noel Bradford is joined by Mauven McLeod and Graham Falkner to unpack the Cabinet Office’s January 2026 Government Cyber Action Plan — a blunt, 100‑page admission that the UK government’s cybersecurity posture is “critically high” risk and that many of its own targets are unachievable. The trio break down the report’s headline findings, case studies of high‑profile failures, and why this matters to you even if you’ve never worked with

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38:45

When MFA Isn’t Enough: Inside Adversary‑in‑the‑Middle...

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2026/01/05

In this episode Mauven McLeod and Graham Faulkner (with Noel Bradford joining partway through) unpack a worrying trend: adversary‑in‑the‑middle (AITM) attacks that steal session tokens and completely bypass conventional multi‑factor authentication (MFA). Using Microsoft’s recent telemetry (a 146% jump in AITM incidents) as a backdrop, they explain how transparent proxy phishing pages relay credentials and MFA approvals to capture session tokens and gain hours of unrestricted access to Microsoft 365

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2:28

3AM Ringtone of Doom? Build Your 6-Module Incident...

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2025/12/29

What You'll LearnThree in the morning. Your phone's ringing. Someone's encrypted your customer database. What do you do? This trailer launches our most ambitious series yet: a six-module programme running January through March 2026 that transforms panic into a complete, tested incident response plan. Each module drops every two weeks, giving you time to implement before the next one arrives. Between modules, normal episodes continue covering current threats, breaches, and patches. This Series

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21:45

Facepalm Retrospective: 2025’s Greatest Cyber Fails —...

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2025/12/22

Welcome to the Small Business Cybersecurity Guy Christmas Special with host Noel Bradford and guests Mauven MacLeod and Graham Falkner. This episode is a rapid-fire, often hilarious and sometimes horrifying roundup of the most spectacular cyber security disasters of 2025, told with a no-nonsense focus on what small businesses should learn from them.We open with the MacHire fiasco: security researchers discovered an admin account on McDonald’s AI hiring chatbot (Paradox.ai/Olivia) protected by the

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45:58

Boards, Breaches and Accountability: Why Small Firms...

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2025/12/15

Do UK small businesses need cyber risk registers? Graham said no. After this 40-minute debate with Noel Bradford, he changed his mind completely.This Small Business Cyber Security Guy podcast episode tackles cyber risk management for UK SMEs through a heated debate about whether small business boards need formal cyber risk registers. UK cyber security statistics that changed Graham's mind: 43% of UK small businesses experienced cyber breaches last year (DSIT 2025) 73% have no board-level cyber

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25:26

Reverse Benchmarking: Learn from the Biggest Cyber...

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2025/12/01

What if the best way to protect your business isn't copying what the successful companies do, but avoiding what the failures did wrong? Welcome to reverse benchmarking, the cybersecurity equivalent of learning from other people's face-plants so you don't repeat them.In this episode, Noel and Mauven flip traditional benchmarking on its head. Instead of asking "what are the best companies doing?", they explore the far more revealing question: "what did the disasters get catastrophically wrong?" From

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12:56

Ghosts in the Machine — Halloween Special: When Your...

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2025/10/31

This Halloween special of the Small Business Cyber Security Guy peels back the curtain on the scariest place hackers hide: the tools and toolchains you trust. Hosts Graeme Falkner, Noel Bradford and Mauven MacLeod go ghost hunting inside compilers, build systems and update pipelines to show how supply‑chain attacks can insert backdoors that you’ll never spot by reading source code alone.The episode revisits Ken Thompson’s classic compiler backdoor thought experiment and explains, in plain language,

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50:36

The Doorman Fallacy: How Cost Cuts Become Catastrophes

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2025/10/27

The £18,000 Saving That Cost £200,000 in Revenue Ever cut a cost that seemed obviously wasteful, only to discover you'd destroyed something far more valuable? Welcome to the Doorman Fallacy —it's probably happening in your business right now. In this episode, Noel Bradford introduces a concept from marketing expert Rory Sutherland's book "Alchemy" that explains precisely why "sensible" security cost-cutting so often leads to catastrophic consequences. Through five devastating real-world case

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11:20

Beds, Bins and DNS: How One AWS Region Outage Sank...

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2025/10/26

Hosts Mauven MacLeod and Graham Falkner deliver a fiery rant about the recent AWS US East 1 DNS outage and what it reveals about our dependence on cloud services. In this episode, they unpack the outage's real-world impact — from Snapchat and Venmo outages to Philips Hue bulbs and automated litter boxes going dark — and share colourful personal anecdotes, including a navigation fail on a Loch Lomond walk and a high‑tech mattress that turns into an expensive paperweight when the cloud hiccups.The

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11:30

Discord's Data Breach and the UK's Digital ID Debacle

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2025/10/16

Noel and Mauven unpack Discord’s third-party breach that exposed government-ID checks from age-appeal cases, then weigh it against Westminster’s push for a nationwide digital ID. It’s a frank look at how outsourcing, age-verification mandates and data-hungry processes collide with real-world security on the ground. Expect straight talk and practical fixes for UK SMBs.What we cover What actually happened at Discord: a contractor compromise affecting support/Trust & Safety workflows, not

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8:06

172 Security Holes Just Got Patched - But Is YOUR...

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2025/10/15

Microsoft has released the October 2025 Patch Tuesday update, and the numbers tell a serious story: 172 security flaws patched, six of them zero-day exploits already in the wild. For UK small businesses, this is more than routine maintenance; these updates protect against vulnerabilities that attackers are actively exploiting to break into systems like yours. Graham Falkner cuts through the technical jargon to explain what these updates actually mean for your business, shares a real-world story of a

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7:37

Why the Chancellor Just Wrote to UK CEOs: Cyber...

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2025/10/14

Ministers have sent an urgent letter to UK business leaders after the NCSC handled 204 nationally significant cyber incidents in the past year, with 18 "highly significant" incidents – a 50% increase for the third consecutive year. Join Mauven MacLeod and Graham Falkner as they unpack the government's wake-up call and translate ministerial warnings into concrete actions every business leader can take today. What You'll Learn Why the Chancellor and three Cabinet Ministers personally co-signed an

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35:39

Extra Credit: The Corrections, The Code, and The...

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2025/10/13

We were wrapping up our interview with Tammy Buchanan about the Kido nursery breach when she said: "Actually, there were some really important points I forgot to make." So we grabbed another cup of tea, broke out the custard creams, and kept recording. Then, during the tea break, Graham discovered something on Twitter: VX-Underground, a credible malware research collective, had posted a screenshot of what appears to be a Kido GitHub repository containing API code. Files that typically contain system

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35:51

InfoSec vs CyberSec vs IT Security: Stop Wasting...

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2025/10/05

Vendors love throwing around "InfoSec," "CyberSec," and "IT Security" like they're selling completely different solutions. Half the time it's the same thing with three different price tags. The other half? You're buying protection that doesn't address your actual risks.With 50% of UK small businesses hit by cyber incidents in 2025 and 60% closing within six months of severe data loss, getting this wrong isn't just expensive—it's potentially fatal to your business. Noel Bradford (40+ years wrangling

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