Tues 1st Oct, 2024
10:00 – 12:00
Mastercard Dublin Tech Hub
Free and in-person only
Join us at our techBREK network & learn series, in partnership with Mastercard, where technology and innovation professionals come together to connect, exchange ideas, and gain valuable insights.
Cyber Resilience for SMEs – Supporting the Skills Demands of Small Business
This is the second event in our series of techBREK network & learn events, delivered in partnership with Mastercard and taking place the first Tuesday of each month in September, October, November and December at Mastercard Dublin Tech Hub, South County Business Park, Dublin. The techBREK series are hosted by Sabrina Staunton, Director of the Mastercard Dublin Tech Hub and an award winning leader in the financial services sector, who will guide us on a thought-provoking and insightful journey this Autumn.
Cybercrime is the number one threat when it comes to financial crime in Ireland. This is particularly true for small businesses; with over 43% of cyber-attacks targeting those businesses which are seen as low-hanging fruit for criminals due to their limited resources and funding. The pandemic accelerated the shift to online trading and, as small and micro businesses make the digital transition, it is essential they are equipped with the necessary tools and knowledge to protect themselves from a cyber incident. A survey carried out by iReach Insights in 2023 found that while over 75% of Irish SMEs agree a secure online presence is necessary, only 20% are aware of the measures needed for cyber resilience and over 85% of small businesses do not have a cybersecurity plan in place, due to lack of funding (47%), skills (50%) and low awareness of potential risks (36%). This session will combine practical insights into how small businesses can take steps to protect themselves with a broader examination of the threat landscape and challenges facing Ireland’s small business community.
Registration for this techBREK event is closed
Event Speakers
Ria Shetty is Mastercard’s European lead for a set of the cyber resilience products. Her focus is on products and services for SMEs as well as third-party risk assessment. She oversees the product evolution and optimisation, additionally she maintains strategic relationships with both internal, external, private and public sector parties, working with global teams to understand the needs of customers and technology required to detect and protect customers from Cyber Crime and ensure legislative and regulatory compliance.
In her previous role at Mastercard she was a subject matter expert in PSD2 and Strong Customer Authentication with a focus on in-car payments. Prior to joining Mastercard, Ria, was working at Accenture in the Financial Service sector. Over the course of her career, she has had many gigs in the banking industry with experiences ranging from Retail Banking to Corporate & Investment Banking
Jacky leads Accenture’s EMEA security practice. She has 30 years’ experience in technology and cyber security consulting. Jacky holds an MSc in Digital investigations and Forensic computing, a GCFA and a GICSP. She has worked across multiple industry sectors including health & public services, resources and financial services.
Jacky specialises in helping organisations to understand and treat their cyber risk and has had the experience of investigating many national and international breaches. She is also Vice-chair on the board of Cyber Ireland and has previously been an adjunct lecturer in UCD MSc in forensics and security.
Jacky is an active contributor at the World Economic Forum, speaking at Davos in 2022 and contributes actively to other security fora at international conferences and Interpol. In 2018, she was awarded ‘Security Champion of the Year’ in Ireland for her contribution to the Irish security industry and her mentorship and encouragement of women in security.
Olivia is an Executive Vice President of Engineering for the Transfer Solutions group, part of Mastercard’s Commercial and New Payment Flows division.
The Transfer Solutions group is focused on delivering scaled, secure, frictionless money movement capabilities. Building on Mastercard payment capabilities to target these incremental flows by developing flow and segment-specific value propositions and providing those through our B2B partners, including financial institutions, businesses, Fin Techs, and other ecosystem players.
Before this, Olivia was a Senior Vice President of Payment Networks, leading the Network Access functions. The Network Access group is modernising and converging our payment edge capabilities to enable our strategy of a globally scaled, locally relevant, comprehensive, and differentiated network value proposition across payments, data, and services offered in a unified, seamless, and secure platform.
Previously, Olivia was Senior Vice President in Architecture & Technology, leading the Builders’ Enablement program, which provides tools and frameworks for software engineers at Mastercard. This global program delivers value by making it easy to develop applications with all the support necessary to ensure they are secure and operate well at scale in a distributed environment, either on-premise or in the public cloud, providing an end-to-end developer experience.
She led a global team of software development engineers and leaders to provide dynamic service discovery, publication, routing, and integrated security for APIs across Mastercard and integration engineering and middleware teams in various other roles.
Before joining Mastercard in 2012, Olivia held a leadership role at Allied Irish Banks, where she was responsible for Internet-facing platforms. She also held various technical positions, where she was responsible for Unix and Internet Services.
She enjoys working in an environment that moves quickly and where change is continuous, learning new technologies and how to apply them to the technical challenges as we expand our platforms and services to serve global markets in a locally relevant way.
Olivia is a passionate supporter of initiatives to encourage female talent to pursue STEM-based careers. She led the Dublin Chapter of Women 2.0 and participated in the Trinity and Technological University Dublin ESTeEM mentorship programs. Olivia has been involved in numerous Mastercard Girls4Tech initiatives and provides mentorship through internal Mastercard mentorship programs.