The London Metropolitan Police's Tom Lee on how he and his colleagues in the Cyber Crime Unit help businesses and other organisations as well as members of the public to protect themselves from cyber criminals and particularly the threat of ransomware attacks.

We hear some of the horror stories he encounters on a daily basis and his number one tip to any business wanting to better combat cyber crime - it begins at the top.

Following on from yesterday’s chat with iFORCE’s Ben Harris, we speak to Guy Kariv about Infinidat’s role in helping companies to combat cyber crime and the importance of having a robust storage strategy. We also get his number one tip for anybody putting together or enhancing their cyber crime protection.

Ahead of 2 December's cyber crime and ransomware awareness session in London, iFORCE's Ben Harris tells us a bit about his early career, which gave him a valuable education in effectively fighting modern cyber crime. 

We also learn about his 'whole force' approach and his number one tip for anybody who feels less than prepared for combating the scourge of ransomware.

Producing live televised sport in a bio secure bubble is labour-intensive, time-consuming and expensive, but totally necessary if top-flight sport is to stay on our screens. 

Our contributors on this fourth Informed Sauce podcast, SVG Europe Editor Will Strauss and former IMG VP Melissa Payne, talk creative compromises and workarounds and the financial pressures of being between a rock and a hard place.

Our other guest is Peter Watts of Your Doctor, who are providing Covid-19 testing and screening services to Pinewood Studios so that production on the third instalment of the Jurassic World franchise can resume.

In the third new Informed Sauce podcast, HPE's Chris Dando and Matt Dunning talk about the effect the lockdown has had on sourcing components and how the computer hardware industry has adapted in the unprecedented situation it finds itself.

We  also hear from HPE's Graham Muncer ahead of the Discover Virtual Experience, which begins online tomorrow.

For the second new Informed Sauce podcast, NVIDIA's Jamie Allan talks about the company's rearranged GPU Technology Conference, which switched to an online-only event after the world went into lockdown.

New Ampere architecture and A100 GPU

Launched on May 14 with a keynote from CEO Jensen Huang, GTC 2020 has its own website that features "hundreds of sessions on dozens of hot topics".

In the podcast, Jamie tells us about the announcement of the Ampere architecture and NVIDIA's next generation GPU, the A100 (see main picture).

Software announcements

On the data science from, Ampere is complemented by NVIDIA's software products; the Jarvis platform for conversational AI and other real-time applications and Merlin for recommendation engines. Then there's the Omniverse platform, which allows users working on the same 3D visualisation project to collaborate remotely using different systems or tools.

This programme is an edited version of a Zoom recording and allowances should be made for occasional glitches and lapses in sound quality.

It's the first new Informed Sauce podcast. What do we have in store?

Regulars Will Strauss, Editor of SVG Europe, and HPE's Matt Armstrong-Barnes are on to discuss the return of top-flight football to our TV screens this weekend in the shape of the German Bundesliga.

How are the outside broadcast companies going to cope with the lockdown restrictions imposed on them inside the stadium on match day..

How are the broadcasters going to add the much-needed big match  atmosphere to their coverage? Where can AI be applied to enhance the viewing experience? Are there boundaries they shouldn't cross?

Please note this programme is an edited version of a Zoom recording and allowances should be made for occasional lapses in sound quality.

The new-look Informed Sauce website will also feature a magazine-style podcast with a regular group of contributors and a rolodex-full of guests. The first programme will appear in early May..

Standalone feature will punctuate the regular mixture of opinions, insights and conversation. To give you an idea of what to expect from these features, here's the first of two from the archives.

In 2006, Radio 2 commissioned Red Bee Media to create a TV promo. Producer Edel Erickson and director Steve Cope came up with the idea of a 60 second slot in which Elvis Presley is imagined introducing an all-star band of musicians and singers to accompany him on stage, The band that never was.

This is the story of how they made it, with the help of Blue Post Production's VFX artist Chris Mortimer on creating the illusion of the band that never was, Grand Central's Munzie Thind on the music and the unusual experience of working with a voice artist to recreate Elvis's voice, and editor Tim Hardy, who reveals the identity of one character who didn't make the cut and the man who surprised him with a smile.

This podcast originally appeared in the upclose&digital series.

In 1993, Rushes Technical Director Mark Wildig attended the annual NAB tech fest in Las Vegas and stumbled across a radical new 2D compositing system from Canadian upstarts discreet logic. It is, you could say, the trip that lit the flame that changed the Soho VFX industry forever.

In this, the second Informed Sauce Podcast Preview from the archives, Mark, by then co-founder and Technical Director of Smoke & Mirrors, fellow Smoke & Mirrors co-founder Sean Broughton, former colleague Rushes Mike Uden and then current Rushes MD Joce Capper talk about how they bought the first Flame in London, how it was shipped  to London and installed - no mean feat - and thee first joobs it was used on, including Guns 'n' Roses' 'Paradise City' promo, the Canon 'paper man' printer commercial the iconic 'Bullitt'  Ford Puma commercial featuring Steve McQueen.