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Adarma invests in senior management team with Cisco VP appointment

By updatesPosted on 10th November 202010th November 2020Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News

UK cyber security business, Adarma, has strengthened its management team with the appointment of ex-Cisco Global Vice President John Maynard as its new CEO. The business has made the appointment as it seeks to capitalise on its existing strong growth

SICCAR secures £1.3m investment led by Par Equity

By updatesPosted on 10th November 202010th November 2020Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

Scottish firm SICCAR, previously Wallet Services, has received an investment of £1.3 million led by venture capital firm Par Equity. The investment will strengthen its product development and customer teams as the company builds on its success in two industry sectors. The

RBS launches new entrepreneur competition

By updatesPosted on 10th November 202010th November 2020Posted in Industry News

The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced the launch of a new competition to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week (16-20 November) where they’ll show new businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs how to write a 60-second pitch, with the chance to take home

Cyber resilience strategy 2015-2020: progress report

By updatesPosted on 9th November 20209th November 2020Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News

This report entitled ‘Firm foundations’ highlights the progress of ‘Safe, Secure and Prosperous: A Cyber Resilience Strategy for Scotland’ (2015-2020). You can read the report here

12 Clusters of Tech – Scotland Report

By updatesPosted on 6th November 20206th November 2020Posted in Industry News

Want to know more about the great innovation in technology we have in the UK? Now you can. The UK Tech Cluster Group, chaired by Sunderland Software City, and London Tech Week have partnered to launch the 12 Clusters of

Scottish Government: Survey of Suppliers 2020

By updatesPosted on 5th November 20205th November 2020Posted in Industry News

This survey is being used to gather views from those selling to the Scottish public sector to offer a supplier perspective on a range of strategic topics. This includes, but is not limited to: organisations’ experiences of bidding for and/or delivering Scottish public

That’s a wrap on Cyber Security Awareness Month

By updatesPosted on 4th November 20204th November 2020Posted in ScotlandISCyber, ScotlandIS News

It has now been over a year since I took on the role of Cluster Manager for Scotland’s cyber cluster, and what a year it has been – having a global pandemic and many months of home working was certainly

Aberdeenshire based tech experts create new Alexa skill to help improve wellbeing

By updatesPosted on 4th November 20204th November 2020Posted in Member News

Aberdeenshire based TL Tech Smart Home Solutions have announced their new Alexa skill is now available in the Amazon Alexa Skill store. The new skill is called Kindspace and is a unique voice-first experience that allows you to track and

Ping Identity to Acquires Symphonic Software

By updatesPosted on 4th November 20204th November 2020Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News

Ping Identity Holding Corp. (NYSE: PING) (“Ping Identity”), the Intelligent Identity solution for the enterprise, today announced that it has acquired Symphonic Software, a leader in dynamic authorization for protecting APIs, data, apps and resources through identity. Dynamic authorization gives IT

Intelligent Plant Announced An Honoree at 2020 Elastic Search Awards

By updatesPosted on 3rd November 20203rd November 2020Posted in Member News

Intelligent Plant, an award-winning UK based software engineering company, announced it was named an honoree winner of a 2020 Elastic Search Awards. The company, which helps accelerate the deployment and adoption of key operational data analytics across all industries worldwide,