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The Scottish Government and Skills Development Scotland are keen to better coordinate how cyber security employers and industry engage with schools, colleges and youth work to inspire more young people into cyber security skills development and careers. As a first
Cyan Forensics has been announced as the winner of PitchGovTech as part of the GovTech Summit 2019 The Scottish digital start-up has created a digital forensic analysis tool to find child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on devices within minutes Cyan
We are delighted to be sponsoring the Scottish Qualification Authority’s (SQA) annual Star Awards on 15 November 2019. The awards are a celebration of outstanding achievements in education and training not just in Scotland, but throughout the UK and around
North-east students and professionals have been given the opportunity to kick-start their career in cyber security thanks to a special competition launched by an Aberdeen firm. The TechForce, which specialises in cyber security solutions and consultancy, has pledged to support
During a recent monthly scan for one of our managed vulnerability scanning customers, a medium impact issue regarding Fortigate VPNs was identified (CVE-2018-13379). However, the attack led knowledge of the team responsible for validation of issues quickly identified that the vulnerability had a
CENSIS is Scotland’s centre of excellence for sensing, imaging and Internet of Things technologies. Last year over 500 people attended the 5th Summit and the event has established itself as a fixture on the Scottish tech scene and is a growing
Leading cyber security specialists Cyber Security Scotland and North Highland College UHI have signed a Joint Venture Agreement to create a Cyber Security Institute. Dr Nicholson, Founder and Executive Chair of Cyber Security Scotland explains: “The Cyber Security Institute has
An Aberdeen-based cyber security specialist has targeted further UK market growth after announcing a renewed focus on protecting its customers’ critical data from external threats. The TechForce has been awarded a place on the highly competitive G-Cloud 11 framework, the Government’s
Thurso and Edinburgh-based Cyber Security Scotland has won the Award for Outstanding Achievement at the Caithness Chamber of Commerce Young Business Awards. Founder and Executive Chair Dr Keith Nicholson gave his reaction: “It gives me great pride and satisfaction that
Scots from all corners of the country working to better the nation’s approach to cyber security are being urged to apply to the Scottish Cyber Awards – with the application deadline looming. To reflect the indiscriminate and nationwide cyber threat,
