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Cyber Resilient Scotland: strategic framework

By updatesPosted on 22nd February 202122nd February 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber

Read all about Scotland’s Cyber Resilient Framework, published this morning. This framework builds on Scotland’s first cyber resilience strategy, Safe, secure and prosperous: a cyber resilience strategy for Scotland, expanding on its achievements and addressing ongoing – and new –

Applications Open for Digital Xtra Fund’s 2021 Grant Awards

By updatesPosted on 22nd February 202122nd February 2021Posted in Member News, Skills, ScotlandIS News

Schools, clubs and activity providers teaching young people digital skills are all encouraged to apply. Funding applications have opened for this year’s grants programme from Digital Xtra Fund, Scotland’s charity committed to increasing the number and diversity of young people

PIONEERING START-UPS SELECTED FOR AI ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME

By updatesPosted on 19th February 202119th February 2021Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

15 PIONEERING START-UPS SELECTED FOR AI ACCELERATOR BASED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH’S BAYES CENTRE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SCALE SPACE Entrepreneurs creating AI powered robotic gloves, personalised medicine, through to ‘x-ray vision’ software are some of the 15 trail blazing

My First Month in the Data Cluster

By updatesPosted on 19th February 202119th February 2021Posted in ScotlandISData

Read David Ferguson’s first monthly blog as our new Head of the Data cluster. Having taken on the role of managing the Data Cluster from Katy Guthrie I would like to start by thanking Katy for the great work she

Save the Date – DataFest 2021

By updatesPosted on 19th February 202119th February 2021Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

DataFest, brought to you by The Data Lab, is returning for 2021 and kicks off on the 25th of March with a free virtual launch, including a keynote talk from a very special guest speaker. DataFest 2021 will feature events

Record year for UK’s £8.9bn cyber security sector

By updatesPosted on 18th February 202118th February 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News

A new government report shows that the UK’s growing cyber industry attracted record investment last year, despite the global pandemic. New report shows almost 50,000 people are now employed in UK cyber security Number of active cyber security firms in

Developing the COVID-19 National Notification & Digital Tracing Service

By updatesPosted on 18th February 202118th February 2021Posted in Member News, COVID19

Read the following case study from Storm ID on the work they undertook during the pandemic to help develop Scotland’s National Notification & Digital Tracing Service, to support test results delivery for people in Scotland who had been tested for

IFB supports Cyber Scotland Week by providing free cyber security vulnerability checks to Scottish organisations

By updatesPosted on 18th February 202118th February 2021Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber

Aberdeen based IFB has unveiled a limited number of complimentary cyber security vulnerability checks – designed to help businesses clearly understand how to fix vulnerabilities in their digital infrastructure and systems. IFB’s Threat Intelligence offering is part of a suite

Digital Skills: Cyber and Data Graduates

By updatesPosted on 18th February 202129th March 2021Posted in Skills, ScotlandIS News

With 13,000 jobs in Scotland’s tech sector going unfilled each year, there continues to be a prevalent skills shortage in this industry. At ScotlandIS, we continue to strive for new ways to bridge that gap. In addition to our hugely

UK Computer Science degrees more popular than ever this year

By updatesPosted on 18th February 202118th February 2021Posted in Member News

Record numbers of people have applied to study Computer Science degrees in 2021, new figures show today. There are currently 129,610 applications for computing courses at UK universities this year, an increase of 4% on 2020. Women account for 17.5%