ScotlandIS Cyber

This Skills Roundtable is being held in association with St Andrews University and Fife College as an opportunity for ScotlandIS members to provide insight into skills requirements for the sector.

Throughout the event we will discuss gaps and mismatches within Higher Education (HE)/Further Education (FE), and requirements from industry. We will discuss the skills that are required in specific areas across Scotland, explore the level of skills required by industry, and look at how qualification levels impact roles.

What is the demand for qualifications over experience, and what are the barriers to accessing that training?

It is hoped that the audience will leave with a better grasp of the skills rquirements across Scotland, and that educational institutions gain a clearer understanding of sector requirements to ensure the training they are providing is relevant.

Are you a Cyber Company with your sights set on the Middle East?

The Arab International Cybersecurity Conference & Exhibition- AICS (5-6 November 2025) is the gateway to the Middle East!

Join this FREE Webinar to hear more about your opportunities, benefits and participation in the UK Pavilion at this year’s AICS.

Bahrain is 30 minutes drive from Saudi Arabia and a 1 hour flight to most GCC destinations – providing exceptional opportunities for Middle East expansion.

Message Tommy McCarthy via thomas@ospcyberacademy.com to secure your place!

Start your cyber resilience journey today: Help your third sector organisation stay safe online 

Charities are using digital systems every day to deliver their services and keep in touch but with this capability comes a level of risk. Join us for an engaging half-day event tailored specifically for third sector organisations looking to help their organisation stay safe online. This event is designed to give you the tools, knowledge, and connections to boost your cyber resilience.

Who should attend? 

Anyone working and/or volunteering for a third sector organisation in Scotland at the beginning of their cyber resilience journey, and maybe not sure where to start, who provides leadership and/or is responsible for aspects of operations/IT.

What’s on the Agenda? 

Improve Cyber Awareness Anyone working and/or volunteering for a third sector organisation in Scotland at the beginning of their cyber resilience journey, and maybe not sure where to start, who provides leadership and/or is responsible for aspects of operations/IT. Learn steps to enhance your organisation’s understanding of cyber risks and how to stay vigilant.

Join our series of events, ScotlandIS Tech Tidbits, on the first Tuesday of every month!

These 30 minute webinars will be short, informative sessions on a variety of topics, from exporting to cybersecurity, cloud computing to procurement, and many more.

Each event will feature a ScotlandIS member offering their expert insights and advice on the topic in hand, however you do not need to be a member to attend these talks.

For our September event, we’ll be joined by Stephen Murphy, Enterprise Account Manager at Quest.

Imagine you’re in a room full of mismatched spreadsheets, each one insisting it knows who “Customer 123” is, but none of them agree. That’s where Stephen’s story begins. He’ll walk you through the moment Quest finally said “Enough!” and ran their data only to discover they had been carrying around 127 duplicate fields like extra luggage.

Next comes the secret weapon, a lineage-hunting bot that mapped every column in minutes and gave Quest the confidence to launch a dashboard people actually wanted to use. Along the way Stephen will stay honest with three gut-check questions: Does it bring value? Can it last? Is it doable? He will finish with a quick look at AI that can sketch data models on the fly, and leave you with one dare: go home, retire one dusty report, and start making your data lovable.

Are you confident in your organisation’s ability to detect cyber threats?

Join speakers from Acumen Cyber and EY to discuss Cyber Threat Detection.

Understanding the assets that you have, key vulnerabilities and indicators of compromise can be challenging. There are a number of frameworks that can be used to establish cyber maturity and suggest good practice – but what are the practical implications of this?

Using the example of the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) (which is increasingly a requirement or regulatory obligation in the public sector), we’ll look at the following topics:

• The changing threat landscape
• What are the objectives of CAF, and what are they trying to demonstrate?
• Lessons learned from supporting clients to assess where they are against CAF (including sector specific profiles), including:

– Detecting cyber security events across dispersed IT / OT environments.
– Escalating, classifying and responding to verified cyber events

Contact marketing@acumencyber.com to register, and a member of the team will be in touch.

Do you have expertise in cybersecurity or space domain awareness (SDA)?

Apply to participate in the CySpace Connected Capability Network (CCN) cyber and SDA capability mapping workshop in Scotland, in which you can contribute to increasing UK space resilience.

Each workshop will identify key cyber and SDA capabilities, and map them to the Requirement Catalogue.

The Capability Mapping workshops will hold up to 100 attendees and last around 10:00-16:00.

Find out more and express interest to apply via the ‘Learn More’ link below.

Scattered Spider has been wreaking havoc on organizations across the US, UK, and Australia in recent months. No industry is safe; from retail giants and airlines to financial institutions, everyone is in the crosshairs. Is your cybersecurity team ready to tackle this threat, and the next one lurking just around the corner? With cyber threats more scattered than ever, now is the time to elevate your defenses.

Hack The Box invites you to an exclusive event designed for SOC Managers to deep-dive into the tactics of Scattered Spider and rethink how to prepare your team for every opponent, not just one.

What to expect:

• Channel your inner Sherlock Holmes and put your investigative instincts to the test in a thrilling escape room challenge.
• Discuss key insights and lessons learned from recent Scattered Spider cyber attacks.
• Experiment with our defensive investigatory scenarios, Sherlocks, and experience how your team can practice detecting and defusing threats in a realistic, safe environment.
• Network and unwind over drinks with your peers.

• Understand the UK’s Cyber Security Strategy priorities and what they mean for public sector resilience, with keynotes from Paul Benson, North West Cyber Resilience Centre and Jonathan Pownall, National Audit Office
• Explore strategies for embedding cyber into public sector culture and leadership, from operationalising frameworks to developing visibility and accountability—featuring Chris Booth, ITHealth and Henrik Kiertzner, National Trust
• Discover how to build a cyber-ready workforce through skills development, DEI, and national standards, with insight from Sarra Fotheringham, College of Policing and Claire Harrison, MHRA
• Learn how to defend as one, with real-world case studies on secure collaboration, AI-driven threat detection, and regional ecosystem building—featuring leaders from Cyware, NWROCU, and CyberNorth.
• Network with senior cybersecurity professionals across government, NHS, education, and the voluntary sector, with structured breakout sessions and live Q&As throughout the day.

ScotlandIS members can register for free via this link using the code CYBER-AW.

A full-day event for technical professionals and leaders in the sector. As one of Scotland’s biggest software conferences for over 25 years, ScotSoft allows you to connect, learn, and innovate while meeting new talent at the Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards.

This year, the event offers an unparalleled opportunity to gain invaluable insights from industry leaders, collaborate with peers, and explore the latest industry trends.

Stay tuned as more speakers and our evening’s entertainment act are revealed!

Click the ‘Learn More’ link below for more details.

ScotlandIS Turns 25

Join our series of events, ScotlandIS Tech Tidbits, on the first Tuesday of every month!

These 30 minute webinars will be short, informative sessions on a variety of topics, from exporting to cybersecurity, cloud computing to procurement, and many more.

Each event will feature a ScotlandIS member offering their expert insights and advice on the topic in hand, however you do not need to be a member to attend these talks.

To recognise Cyber Security Awareness Month in October, we’re holding one Tidbit each week on a cyber-related topic.

For Week Two, we’ll be looking at how emerging technology is shaping the future of cyber in the finance sector, with guest speaker Derek Whigham, Chief Security Office Business Platform Lead at Lloyds Banking Group.

With cyberspace becoming ever more dangerous and threat actor techniques becoming increasingly sophisticated, what does the future of cyber security look like for financial services, and what are LBG doing to protect UK Financial Services?

This talk will examine key trends that are shaping the current cyber landscape, emerging technology that is revolutionising cyber threat defence, as well as an example of how LBG are leveraging Agentic AI and Machine Learning to innovatively strengthen its threat hunting capabilities before closing with a number of industry predictions for the next 12 months.

Join our series of events, ScotlandIS Tech Tidbits, on the first Tuesday of every month!

These 30 minute webinars will be short, informative sessions on a variety of topics, from exporting to cybersecurity, cloud computing to procurement, and many more.

Each event will feature a ScotlandIS member offering their expert insights and advice on the topic in hand, however you do not need to be a member to attend these talks.

To recognise Cyber Security Awareness Month in October, we’re holding one Tidbit each week on a cyber-related topic.

For Week Three, we’ll be helping you take a look at your cyber security from a new perspective, with guest speaker Ross McKelvie, CEO of Swordbreaker.

Join us as we go beyond the compliance checkboxes to shape your thinking about the real threats to your business and operations, from ransomware gangs to hostile nation states.

Book your place to join us in October to ensure you’re prepared.

Join our series of events, ScotlandIS Tech Tidbits, on the first Tuesday of every month!

These 30 minute webinars will be short, informative sessions on a variety of topics, from exporting to cybersecurity, cloud computing to procurement, and many more.

Each event will feature a ScotlandIS member offering their expert insights and advice on the topic in hand, however you do not need to be a member to attend these talks.

To recognise Cyber Security Awareness Month in October, we’re holding one Tidbit each week on a cyber-related topic.

For Week Four, we’ll be joined by guest speakers from Burness Paull, to discuss understanding around legal privilege involved in managing a cyber incident.

They’ll cover in more detail how privilege is relevant to cyber incident, an overview of different forms of privilege, how to preserve privilege and how not to waive it, concluding with a summary of the key Do’s and Don’ts.

Imperative for organisations looking to inform themselves of the legal implications surrounding a cyber attack – book your place to join us in October to ensure you’re prepared.

As cybersecurity professionals, we operate in a high-stakes environment where evolving threats and the responsibility of protecting critical systems demand constant vigilance. This relentless pressure, coupled with the weight of potential consequences, significantly erodes performance and compromises cyber resilience.

The 24/7 nature of our work, driven by the fear of missing a critical threat or experiencing a major breach, creates an overwhelming workload. This sustained stress directly impacts cognitive function, which can lead to critical errors in judgment, missed security indicators, and an ongoing struggle to maintain focus and vigilance. Ultimately, this diminishes individual and team effectiveness, making us more vulnerable to cyberattacks.

This workshop will address these critical challenges, emphasising why managing mental wellbeing is fundamental to our overall cyber resilience — at individual, team, and organisational levels.

Event Objectives:

• Raise Awareness: Highlight the scale of mental health challenges in the industry and the psychosocial hazards which commonly cause stress at work.

• Promote Self-Care: Equip participants with practical self-care strategies to enhance individual mental well-being and, by extension, performance.

• Foster Team Support: Provide leaders with strategies to support team well?being, strengthening collective resilience.

• Reduce Stigma: Foster safe spaces for open discussion on mental health to reduce the stigma surrounding seeking help.

• Industry Focus: Update on the work of the Mental Health in Cyber Security Foundation (MHinCS Foundation) and its Charter.

Start your cyber resilience journey today: Help your third sector organisation stay safe online.

Charities are using digital systems every day to deliver their services and keep in touch but with this capability comes a level of risk.

Join us for an engaging half-day event tailored specifically for third sector organisations looking to help their organisation stay safe online. This event is designed to give you the tools, knowledge, and connections to boost your cyber resilience.

Who should attend?

Anyone working and/or volunteering for a third sector organisation in Scotland at the beginning of their cyber resilience journey, and maybe not sure where to start, who provides leadership and/or is responsible for aspects of operations/IT.

What’s on the agenda?

Improve Cyber Awareness Anyone working and/or volunteering for a third sector organisation in Scotland at the beginning of their cyber resilience journey, and maybe not sure where to start, who provides leadership and/or is responsible for aspects of operations/IT. Learn steps to enhance your organisation’s understanding of cyber risks and how to stay vigilant.

Interactive Workshop: Build Your Cyber Incident Response Plan Get hands-on experience creating a tailored plan to ensure your organisation is prepared to respond effectively to cyber incidents.

One-to-One ‘Meet the Experts’ Sessions Sit down with cyber experts to discuss personalised steps you can make for improving your organisation’s cyber resilience.

Lunch & Networking Enjoy a relaxed lunch while connecting with like-minded professionals from the third sector. Share experiences, challenges, and solutions as you strengthen your network.

Don’t miss this opportunity to take the first steps towards a safer, more secure organisation. Together, we can build a resilient third sector, equipped to thrive in the face of digital challenges.

Agenda

1200 – 1230: Arrival, registration

1230 – 1245: Welcome and intro

1245 – 1330: How to improve your cyber resilience 

1330 – 1430: Networking lunch with 1:1 sessions running alongside 

1430 – 1515: Build your incident response plan

1515 – 1600: Closing remarks/event close

Start your cyber resilience journey today: Help your third sector organisation stay safe online.

Charities are using digital systems every day to deliver their services and keep in touch but with this capability comes a level of risk.

Join us for an engaging half-day event tailored specifically for third sector organisations looking to help their organisation stay safe online. This event is designed to give you the tools, knowledge, and connections to boost your cyber resilience.

Who should attend?

Anyone working and/or volunteering for a third sector organisation in Scotland at the beginning of their cyber resilience journey, and maybe not sure where to start, who provides leadership and/or is responsible for aspects of operations/IT.

What’s on the agenda?

Improve Cyber Awareness Anyone working and/or volunteering for a third sector organisation in Scotland at the beginning of their cyber resilience journey, and maybe not sure where to start, who provides leadership and/or is responsible for aspects of operations/IT. Learn steps to enhance your organisation’s understanding of cyber risks and how to stay vigilant.

Interactive Workshop: Build Your Cyber Incident Response Plan Get hands-on experience creating a tailored plan to ensure your organisation is prepared to respond effectively to cyber incidents.

One-to-One ‘Meet the Experts’ Sessions Sit down with cyber experts to discuss personalised steps you can make for improving your organisation’s cyber resilience.

Lunch & Networking Enjoy a relaxed lunch while connecting with like-minded professionals from the third sector. Share experiences, challenges, and solutions as you strengthen your network.

Don’t miss this opportunity to take the first steps towards a safer, more secure organisation. Together, we can build a resilient third sector, equipped to thrive in the face of digital challenges.

Agenda

1300 – 1330: Arrival, registration

1330 – 1345: Welcome and intro

1345 – 1430: How to improve your cyber resilience 

1430 – 1530: Networking lunch with 1:1 sessions running alongside 

1530 – 1615: Build your incident response plan

1615 – 1700: Closing remarks/event close