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L’Oréal Joins Fight Against Cyber-Crime

Company named as ambassador for national centre to help SMEs such as salons

by AMANDA | INFORM

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L’Oréal UK and Ireland is now a National Ambassador for the National Cyber Resilience Centre Group (NCRCG), in a first for a beauty company.

The NCRCG is a strategic collaboration between the Home Office, policing, academia and ambassador partners to strengthen cyber resilience across the UK’s small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) community.

Together with NCRCG, the Cyber Resilience Centre (CRC) network is made up of nine police-led CRCs which offer free, high-quality cyber guidance and advice to SMEs in their regions, so that businesses such as salons and barbershops can strengthen their ‘cyber resilience.

Cybercrimesuch as identity theft, phishing scams, malware distribution, ransomware attacks, cyberbullying and cyberstalkingposes a real threat to SMEs such as L’Oréal’s salon partners, and the move is to help safeguard their businesses, with the NCRCG partnership enabling the beauty giant to provide an extra layer of support through signposting to NCRCG resources.

“While large companies like ours invest heavily in tech to enhance our productivity as well as protect our business, it is often much more of a challenge for small and mediumsized companies,” said Jason O’Hare, cybersecurity chief information security officer at L’Oréal Northern Europe.

These include the suppliers we work with and the thousands of hairdressing salons our Professional Products Division partners with. By raising general awareness and signposting to the resources provided by the National CRC Group, we are helping our partners protect sensitive data, maintain customer trust and avoid costly disruptions, while contributing to closing the national skills gap in cybersecurity.”