E249 That Great Business Show - So many SMEs being hit by ransom hackers, Ian Power, UNITEC -

That Great Business Show

Episode 249 That Great Business Show

Bad news. Thousands of ordinary businesses are being hit for small, but significant ransoms, via online hackers. Yes, they're targetting your small business. Every invoice, every payment, every piece of your business information is now in the hands of the Bad Actors. Once they have your invoices, they're out to commit invoice fraud. It can even happen to staff payment, where the staff bank details is compromised. We explain how it's done and it is ...BAD.

Ian Power, wannabe Waterford rocker with 'Sleeze and Cheese' ('we're all failed musicians',),' but also CEO of Unitec tries to make the end of Windows 10 (still used by over 45% of SMEs) as sexy as possible. But did he succeed??

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Steve Jobs because of his innovative mind. Which brought us to Steve's pal, Johnny Ive and his new product that may replace the smartphone.

Emma Maye, CEO, Ardale.

EX Salesforce she's now building houses. Lots of houses. She's also a Image magazine PWC Business Woman of the Year.

Her Salesforce ambitions fell apart (she wanted to head to the top) with the sudden and unexpected death of her dad, Liam Maye, the well know developer. His death coincided with The Property Crash and Emma took it upon herself to try to help her mum sort out her dad's international estate that involved 32 co-owners.

She had '3 NAMA babies'...wait till you hear about the stress.

Planning, planning and planning is her biggest bugbear.

Storage is her next big business.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat', Richard Branson (like Emma, another dyslexic)

There's a maths teacher called Mr. Brennan, who was in a grind school in Dundrum, Dublin, who changed Emma's life, it could be said.

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