The North East Business Resilience Centre (“NEBRC”) is a police-led, not-for-profit organisation that helps protect small to medium enterprises from online crime and fraud.
We are a collaboration between policing across the region, private sector business and academia and we are focused on educating and raising awareness of cyber security in the small business community.
We offer a free membership for businesses of any size and sector to help demystify the cyber security landscape and provide access to national intelligence data, free guidance, and affordable help to protect your business online.
The NEBRC are connected to local universities: Sheffield Hallam and Northumbria were the first to join the programme back in 2019 and have now been joined by other local universities. We work with a talented team of ethical hacking students in conjunction with a national programme called Cyber PATH to deliver a range of cyber security services to businesses throughout the region.
Our trusted cyber security services have developed an ethical reputation, and we have formed a partnership network with the Cyber Essentials Certification and IASME approved Cyber Essentials Certifiers to protect businesses from cyber risks in the North East, Yorkshire and The Humber. They are recognised as Cyber Essentials Partners.
The NEBRC also work very closely with the seven Police forces in our region providing us with access to the latest local as well as national information on emerging cyber threats, criminal trends, best practice for cyber resilience and new technology to provide you with timely guidance to prepare and protect your business, staff and clients from cyber criminals.
We are now an established community resource where North East, Yorkshire and The Humber based organisations trust us to help guide and support them through their cyber security journey.
The NEBRC is also part of a National network of 9 Regional Centres across the country whose role is to deliver essential cyber resilience services, guidance and education. The network is also part of HM Government National Cyber Strategy delivery model.
In 2019 we interviewed over 40 applicants from our founding university partners, Sheffield Hallam and Northumbria Universities. Our student services programme was the first in England to launch and has been incredibly successful providing services to many organisations, generating extra income for which to reinvest in the region and all our alumni have gone on to fantastic jobs in the region and beyond. This year for the first time we have opened our programme to more regional universities and look forward to passing on the expertise from our founding Unis and the National Cyberpath programme to the whole cohort.
We have gone from 0 to over 4000 members in 5 years and have reached audiences of over 100,000 through social media, events, webinars, training programmes and projects. Taking over the NE Fraud Forum in 2022 we are now part of a network of centres nationally and firmly embedded in the North East, Yorkshire and Humber for those SME’s that need awakening to the issues of online crime and fraud. We can also offer a referral to a tranche of partners who specialise in Cyber Essentials certification, specialist operations centres, ongoing managed services, and remedial cyber security provision. All have been through due diligence and are experts in their fields. This allows us to signpost to local SME’s effectively.
Our vision is “To be the go to place for SME’s, third sector and schools for protection against cybercrime, online crime and fraud in the North East, Yorkshire and Humber”
Our mission is “By 2025, our mission is to have helped 12,000 small, medium and third sector businesses in the North East of England become more resilient from cyber and online crime.”