ScotlandISCyber Archives - Page 31 of 54

CyberScotland Partnership supports more than 1,200 businesses

By updatesPosted on 1st March 20221st March 2022Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News, ScotlandIS News

Over the past year more than 1,200 businesses in Scotland have improved their cyber resilience by following CyberScotland Partnership’s Incident Response Plan. The CyberScotland Partnership, created one year ago to provide a central, up-to-date cybersecurity resource for individuals and public, private, and

Women Rock IT – Cyber Security Scholarship

By updatesPosted on 24th February 202224th February 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber, Skills, Diversity and Inclusion, Opportunity

Accelerating access for women into digital and cyber careers: Short Course Scholarships available now with GCU and Cisco. The digital skills gap in the UK costs the UK economy lost GDP potential of £63 billion per year. A large component

Lloyds Banking Group Renews Support for Initiative Promoting Gender Diversity in Cyber Security

By updatesPosted on 24th February 202224th February 2022Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Diversity and Inclusion, Industry News, ScotlandIS News

With Cyber Scotland Week’s annual focus on all things “cyber” in Scotland taking place next week, Lloyds Banking Group has announce its renewed support for the “Empowering Women to Lead Cyber Security” Initiative. The parent group to Scotland’s oldest bank

CyberASAP 2022/2023

By updatesPosted on 15th February 202215th February 2022Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News, Opportunity

The funding competition for the CyberASAP 2022/2023 programme is now open for applications and closes in just over two weeks on 2nd March at 11:00. “Individuals based in a UK academic institution can apply for a share of £800,000 to join the cyber security academic startup

Cyber Runway Scotland Recap

By updatesPosted on 11th February 202214th February 2022Posted in ScotlandISCyber, ScotlandIS News

Read this recap of our Cyber Runway Scotland event from Head of ScotlandIS Cyber, Ciara Mitchell. Cyber Runway Scotland, held on February 8th and 9th, was our first in-person, cyber cluster event in over two years and it was great

Quorum Cyber Joins Gender Diversity in Cyber Security Initiative as Application Deadline Approaches

By updatesPosted on 10th February 202210th February 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber, Skills, Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News

Quorum Cyber, the Edinburgh HQ’d, award-winning cyber security services provider, is the latest in a number of sector leaders to join the “Empowering Women to Lead Cyber Security” initiative as an industry partner. The initiative, supported by ScotlandIS, The Scottish Government’s Digital

Cyber Essentials accreditation for IT Managed Service Providers

By updatesPosted on 7th February 202215th July 2022Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News, ScotlandIS News, Opportunity

ScotlandIS are pleased to announce that we have secured funding through the Scottish Government to be able to allow your organisation to achieve Cyber Essentials (CE) or Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+) accreditation. This fund will be distributed to IT Managed

Napier Researchers Launch New Ransomware Detection Resource

By updatesPosted on 2nd February 20222nd February 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber

Cybersecurity researchers from Napier University in Edinburgh have announced a ransomware data set to support ‘cutting-edge’ research into early detection. Ransomware has become a popular and lucrative method of cyberattack. However, the newly created ‘NapierOne’ can help test and evaluate

Cyan Forensics launches new industry podcast with Sir Mark Rowley as first guest

By updatesPosted on 1st February 20222nd February 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber

Cyan Forensics has launched a new podcast to tackle issues around reducing the impact of harmful content on the internet. Hosted by Cyan CEO Ian Stevenson and with contributions from special guests, the podcast series will discuss the challenges of

ScotlandIS response to the Government Cyber Security Strategy

By updatesPosted on 27th January 202227th January 2022Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Policy, Industry News, ScotlandIS News

ScotlandIS Cyber is delighted to see the UK government’s strong focus on cyber resilience with the launch of the Government Cyber Security Strategy. Following the National Cyber Strategy (launched in December 2021) which seeks to firmly establish the UK as