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PDMS Director to Share Leadership Journey as “Empowering…” Programme Gathers Pace

The “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” Programme brought together its first cohort of aspirational digital leaders from across local and central government, financial services, health and industry last month. The new initiative, delivered by Empowering-You and supported by industry body ScotlandIS,

Glasgow firm helps organisations fight the pandemic through digital modelling

By updatesPosted on 29th April 202129th April 2021Posted in Member News, COVID19

Frances Sneddon, CTO at Simul8, discusses the important role its simulation modelling has played during the pandemic. The past twelve months have been filled with uncertainty. We’ve been living in a world of ‘what-ifs’ and ‘maybes’ while we try and

Omnio selects AutoRek’s reconciliation solution

By updatesPosted on 29th April 202129th April 2021Posted in Member News

Scottish fintech company, AutoRek, a leading software provider to global financial services firms, is proud to announce Omnio as the latest addition to its expanding list of digital banking/payments clients. Omnio is a high growth ﬁnancial services infrastructure provider, combining the best

New cyber security laws to protect smart devices amid pandemic sales surge

By updatesPosted on 29th April 202129th April 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News

Apple, Samsung, Google and other manufacturers will say when smartphones, smart speakers and other devices will stop getting security updates Easy-to-guess default passwords to be banned on virtually all devices under new law Rules will make it easier for people

More Master’s degrees at UK universities recognised by cyber security experts

By updatesPosted on 28th April 202128th April 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Skills

Ten more universities have postgraduate degrees recognised by cyber security experts for the first time for the high-quality education they offer More than 1 in 3 UK universities running Master’s courses in cyber security now offer degrees certified by the National

Tackling the Cyber Skills gap

By updatesPosted on 28th April 202128th April 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Skills

This month, Head of Cyber Ciara highlights the options available to the sector of helping reduce the skills gap and supporting the cyber workforce in Scotland. We hear about the cyber skills challenge on a regular basis, and much work

Exception appoint new sales director to drive business growth

By updatesPosted on 28th April 202128th April 2021Posted in Member News

Exception have bolstered their sales operations with the appointment of Alison McLaughlin as Sales Director. Alison, who joins from Sopra Steria having recently completed a 2 year secondment as part of the Digital Transformation Team in Scottish Government, is joining

Ionburst Cloud continues expansion into UK market with secure object storage platform

By updatesPosted on 26th April 202126th April 2021Posted in Member News

Ionburst, an advanced data protection startup, this week launched its ultra-secure object storage platform, Ionburst Cloud, in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) London region. The early-stage company, based in Edinburgh, has created a solution to address the data protection gap in the Cloud shared responsibility model. Ionburst

Competition: UK’s Most Innovative Cyber Security SME 2021

By updatesPosted on 26th April 202126th April 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Opportunity

Does your cyber security business bring something truly innovative to the UK market? For the sixth time the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is looking for the most creative and original cyber security companies in the country,

Scottish Tech Army’s inaugural Tech for Good Summit Scotland

By updatesPosted on 26th April 202126th April 2021Posted in ScotlandIS News

The Scottish Tech Army in partnership with ScotlandIS, Charity Regulator OSCR and CodeClan announces the inaugural Tech for Good Summit Scotland. The Summit takes place on Wednesday 28th April 2021 and aims to initiate a step change in the Scottish