Events

SMEs across Edinburgh and the Lothians can now tap into funding to provide upskilling and reskilling opportunities for their staff through Edinburgh College and the Flexible Workforce Development Fund.

For the first time, the fund is now available for both levy payers and SMEs, across the private, public and third sectors.

SMEs can apply for up to £5,000 worth of training for their teams, while levy payers (companies which employ approx. 120 staff or more) can continue to access up to £15,000.

Agenda

8.30am: Introduction to the College and the SME Fund

8.40am: Q & A with Edinburgh College Training & Development team

8.45am: Guest speaker

9.00am: Q & A session with guest speaker and Edinburgh College Training & Development team

9.15am: Finish

Join us online for three days of captivating keynotes, amazing MVPs, awe-inspiring workshops and inimitable networking and be among the first to hear about new tech innovations hitting the Scottish public sector in 2021.

We’re excited to reveal the full line up of speakers taking the virtual stage at CivTech Demo Week. Over three days from 2nd to 4th February, we’ll be showcasing the incredible, innovative tech solutions from our Accelerator teams and hearing some fantastic keynote speeches from within tech, Government and the Public Sector.

Day One on Tuesday 2nd February is all about Empowering Communities, and includes keynote speeches from:

Colin Cook Director of Digital, Scottish Government
Ivan McKee MSP, Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation
Mark Elliot, Programme Director, CivTech
Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector and Industries, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Take a look at the full agenda of speeches, workshops and more at the link below.

Do you have an idea for an innovative data product or service? Are you looking to perfect your pitch for investors or customers? Would you like advice from experts?

The Data Innovation clinics are a friendly forum which allows Scottish data & AI companies to practise their business pitch and receive insights and feedback from key experts.

The panel:

• Mike Chantler, Professor of Computer Science, Heriot Watt University.

• John Brodie, founder of Aquila Insights, The Data Lab board member.

• Ross Tuffee, founder of Dogfi.sh, chair of SDS Digital Skills group.

• Mark McLauchlin, Director and CTO at KOSELIG SOLUTIONS LTD.

Criteria for applying:

• You need to be a start-up, a company emerging into data and AI space or scaling data and AI company.

• You need to have a clear ask from the panel – i.e. feedback on pitch / products, introductions etc. If you do not need anything from the panel then please do not apply

To apply please send in the following to katy.guthrie@scotlandis.com:

• A short description of your company covering size and focus with a brief history (this will be included in the info provided to panellists)

• Why do you want to apply? (One line response is fine!)

• What are you hoping to get from participating? (one line response is fine)

Note, we are not creating any kind of non-disclosure agreements with panellists, so please consider what information you share.

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) is a two-day scrum master course that covers the principles and (empirical) process theory underpinning the Scrum framework, and the role of the Scrum Master in it. This course is a combination of instruction and team-based exercises and teaches what is at the heart of the Scrum and Agile movement. The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognised Professional Scrum Master I certification exam (PSM I), which if you successfully pass will accredit you with the title of Professional Scrum Master.

Over the two days, students will see why the Professional Scrum Master course is cutting-edge in scrum training, producing effective Scrum Masters, and suited for anyone coaching a team toward increased efficiency and effectiveness. The course includes advanced thinking for servant-leadership and behavioural shifts.

Throughout the course, students are challenged to think in terms of the Scrum principles to better understand what to do when returning to the workplace.

The PSM course is much more than just a set of slides and an instructor. In this course, students work on real-life cases with other classmates together as a team. This course is made up of discussions and hands-on exercises based upon real-life cases. Individuals who complete our scrum training will be able to take the Professional Scrum Master I certification exam (PSM I), which if they then successfully pass will accredit them with the title of Professional Scrum Master.

“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives”

– Audre Lorde

Intersectionality is a word that is often used but you might not actually know what it means. Even if you’ve never heard of it, you’re in the right place!

Join us for an engaging and interactive lunchtime session exploring exactly what intersectionality is and how it affects every aspect of our lives and the built world. The event runs during LGBT+ History month, an exciting, informative and celebratory month, to educate out prejudice and make LGBT+ people, in all their rich diversity, visible.

Sign up and share with your friends, family, colleagues and social networks!

Join our next Cyber Cluster event which provides an opportunity for the cyber cluster to get together as a community to network and to collaborate. There will also be a number of speakers providing insights and info to support your business growth and development.

This months speakers are:

• Jill Trebilcock, Director of the Chartered Institute of Information Security and part of the UK Cyber Security Council Foundation Project, will talk about why the Council is being set up and what the benefits are for the industry.
• Scott Barnett, Head of Information and Cyber Security at NHS National Services Scotland, will provide an overview of the plans and strategy for cyber security within NHS Scotland, including plans for the Centre of Excellence being set-up.

This is an open friendly cyber community event which provides a chance to speak directly to the speakers as well as with the cyber community. There will be an opportunity for news and announcements as well as a brief update from the Cyber Cluster manager, Ciara Mitchell.

Click ‘Learn More’ to register for this event.

Product Ownership goes beyond writing user stories or managing a product backlog. Product Owners need to have a solid understanding of how to drive the delivery of value.

Over 2 days, from early stakeholder engagement through to release planning and delivery, you will learn techniques to measure, maximise and deliver value to the marketplace. You will also work online with other participants on real-life cases with hands-on exercises.

The Professional Scrum Product Owner – Advanced (PSPO-A) course focuses on helping experienced practitioners expand their ability to establish a solid vision, validate their hypotheses, and ultimately deliver more value to their stakeholders. The PSPO-A course is intended for Product Owners who are looking to grow their knowledge and abilities.

This course is an interactive, experiential workshop where attendees explore topics through a series of exercises and discussions. Students should have at least one year of Product Owner experience and a practical knowledge of Scrum in order to participate in and benefit from these exercises. Having previously taken the PSPO class is recommended, but not essential.

The Product Owner’s role is multifaceted, requiring the practitioner to engage in behaviors and adopt mindsets beyond the core of Agility and the Scrum Framework. This course surfaces these behaviors by challenging the student to adopt several different Product Owner stances:

Customer Representative – focused on understanding customer problems, challenges and potential opportunities

Visionary – communicating the vision, future state and possibilities in ways that foster common understanding

Experimenter – focusing on innovation, hypothesis testing and validating potential value to spark product innovation

Influencer – communicating with and influencing stakeholders, customers and the Scrum Team to act with common purpose

Collaborator – seeking input, ideas and feedback from others

Decision Maker – focusing on creating maximum impact by making clear choices and decisions

Over the 2 days, students will learn about areas critical to growing as a successful Product Owner and through a series of exercises combined with instruction, students gain a better understanding of what it means to deliver value and how to express that value inside and outside of the organization.

The German Capital Region and Scotland are born partners in data-driven innovations in of AI, Fintech, Blockchain, Cybersecurity and IoT / Industrie 4.0, just to name a few hot areas of collaboration. Together they form ideal grounds to develop applications for financial services/fintech , energy, mobility, digital health, smart cities and the digitization of modern life in Europe. The virtual networking conference provides an opportunity to German and Scottish IT & Tech players to connect and start informally exploring the synergies and meet potential partners for a cross-border collaboration.

Scotland has over 9.400 digital technology companies from software development and IT services with particular strengths in data-driven innovation. Edinburgh was recently named the UK’s top city for start-ups and attracts more foreign investment than any other tech cluster outside London. Scotland’s digital technology sector is forecast to grow by 38% by 2024, making it the fastest growing sector in Scotland and increasing twice as fast as the Scottish economy overall.

The German Capital Region centred around Berlin has become a top location for ICT innovations. Together with the media and creative industries, ICT forms a cluster with about 48,000 companies and more than 240,000 employees from a wide range of fields: from media businesses, service-providers, publishing houses and advertising agencies to telecommunications providers and software developers. Companies such as Axel Springer, Deutsche Telekom, Mozilla, Nokia, Universal Music and Viacom International Media Networks are all based in Berlin. Start-ups such as Zalando, Sound Cloud, 6wunderkinder, Onefootball, Wooga, N26 , Smava, Ada Health are just a few of the younger success stories that have been written in Berlin. Berlin is the digital innovation lab for most German industry. As a creative centre and internationally renowned start-up metropolis, major international media and communications festivals and trade shows take place in Berlin. IT-related research in the region is ranked internationally and the growth rates of the Berlin ICT sector are higher than average.

When it comes to successful technology and market driven collaboration Berlin/Brandenburg and Scotland are ready to Go!

Meet USA trade experts for a Virtual ‘whistle-stop’ tour of Scotland’s top export destination. Hear how in a Covid19 world we will offer you advice on opportunities for your products and services. Plus, get practical tips and guidance to help you set up, grow and develop your business, from those who have made that journey and continue to do so.

SSI is next-gen identity. In this webinar series, our SSI subject matter experts introduce self-sovereign patterns and protocols, and how you can get SSI going in your business. Each webinar will run for 40 minutes with 15 minutes for Q&A. We’ll make previous webinars available – so if you’ve missed one, don’t worry!

Our speakers :

• David Manning, Architect

• Richard Astley, Architect

• David Downs, Lead Software Engineer

Join us on Thursday 18th February at 1pm for an interactive Roundtable in which we discuss commercial opportunities for blockchain technologies.

Our experts will discuss:

• Use cases for blockchain technologies for commercial benefit, and examples of successful use of blockchain technologies B2B and B2C;
• Ways to discover commercial opportunities;
• Challenges barring widespread adoption of blockchain technologies, and how to overcome these;
• Ways to successfully market blockchain and build customer relationships.

Panelists:

• Oliver Johnston-Watt, Marketing Director, Blockchain Technology Partners
• Andy Watt, Technical Lead & Co-Founder, Avalone Consultants
• Colin McCrae, Co-Founder, Avalone Consultants
• Iona Murray, Marketing Manager, SICCAR
• Kathryn Strachan, Managing Director, Copy House

As one of the largest virtual gatherings of public sector cyber security and IT professionals from across Scotland and further afield, Holyrood Connect’s 10th annual Public Sector Cyber conference will play a major role within Cyber Scotland Week.

Our 2021 edition, taking place virtually, will examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a shift in cyber security threats, and offer the latest thinking on how your organisation can protect itself. With the Scottish Government preparing to launch its new cyber security strategy, we will also look ahead to the future of cyber security policy in Scotland.

Key issues to be addressed:

• COVID-19 and the Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape

• Remote Working + Cloud Security

• Cyber Security and the Supply Chain

• Developing Whole Organisation Cyber Skills

• Beyond Brexit: Implications for Cyber Security and Data Protection

The conference will include a keynote presentation by Ivan McKee MSP, Minister for Trade & Innovation. Please visit the event website for an up to date agenda: Full Agenda

The event is free-to-attend for those working in the public or third sectors, and delegates will be eligible for up to six CPD points (depending on participation levels).

Join us for our first virtual Turing Talk in partnership with the IET.

Headline Talk – Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics, with Prof. Cecilia Mascolo

• What can data from devices we carry with us in our daily activities really reveal about our health and wellbeing? This talk will reflect on the challenges and opportunities that mobile and wearable health systems are introducing for the community, the developers as well as the users.

Insights Talk – Wearable Technology for Digital Epidemiology, with Dr Kate Farrahi

• Wearable technology is transforming into a viable healthcare tool. This technology can monitor humans continuously and often ubiquitously, providing a method for improved health insight and individualised care. This talk will use the example of smartphones as wearable technology and delve into a case study of how this technology can be used in the battle against Covid-19.

Join the new Glasgow chapter of the Ladies Hacking Society for our launch party and to kick off Cyber Scotland Week!

Come and learn about what the ladies hacking society is all about, and help us shape future events to meet Glasgow’s needs.

Huge thanks to our amazing Sponsor Michael Man, Checkmarx for making this possible and providing some excellent goodies for the night.

We can’t wait to meet you Glasgow!

The must-attend conference for Scotland’s cyber and security professionals

Join us to find out how Scotland’s Cyber Leaders would respond in the event of a cyber-attack on Scotland and our public services, how are we positioning Scotland as a leader in data and digital security and about the the soon to be renewed Scottish Government Cyber Resilience Action Plan.

Scotland’s Cyber Leaders Response to a Wide Scale Cyber Attack

What happens in the event that Scotland is hit by a hostile cyber-attack targeting national digital infrastructure? It’s a question that is top of mind among infosec professionals across the country, who are increasingly alive to critical incident response post Covid-19. Join our leading cyber agencies from across the public sector as they outline how they would deploy counter measures in an emergency and how resilience is being built into digital systems amid rising cyber threat levels experienced during lockdown.

Context

The pandemic has seen a huge shift to digital as people and businesses shift their transactions and operations online. Threat vectors are increasing all the time and our workplaces and public services are now part of a wider patchwork of systems that comprise our critical national infrastructure. Our cyber leaders will demonstrate how closer strategic alignment is helping to make Scotland a more resilient country – and an international exemplar of best practice – through Covid-19 and beyond.

National Cyber Resilience Leaders’ Board

Economic development, national incident response and partnership working with the private sector will benefit from alignment with updated Cyber Action Plans. Hear from the National Cyber Resilience Leaders’ Board, Police Scotland and the Scottish Business Resilience Centre.

This year’s keynote speakers include:

• Jude McCorry, CEO – Scottish Business Resilience Centre;

• Ciaran Martin CB, Former CEO – National Cyber Security Centre;

• Colin Cook, Digital Director – The Scottish Government;

• David Ferbrache OBE, National Cyber Resilience Advisory Board – The Scottish Government;

• Mark McKenny, The Scottish Governments first appointment as Chief Information Security Officer;

• Deryk Mitchelson, Director of National Digital and Information Security – NHS National Services Scotland;

• Carol Peters, Cyber Security Architect- Renfrewshire Council;

• Malcolm Graham, Deputy Chief Constable, Crime & Operational Support- Police Scotland.

Your virtual experience
We invite you to join us on an exciting, dynamic and engaging new virtual platform which will provide you with an unrivalled delegate experience.

This year, we are  virtual, but our conference objectives remain the same, to bring about meaningful change in the way public services are designed and delivered, by connecting stakeholders in open forums where new ideas can be exchanged and discussed.

This event is part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

Join Nick Martin from managed cloud and security services provider, iomart, to discover how to balance the need for increased cyber security in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Nick will explain how the move to remote working and rapid uptake of cloud and SaaS has broken the traditional model for security. He will highlight the new vulnerabilities that exist and explain how to build a new security model that will protect your business and your people.

This webinar is suitable for businesses and organisations who want to understand how to update their approach to cyber security.

This event is part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

With the advancement in ‘everything cloud’ and a drive towards digital innovation, businesses are more “digital” than ever. This has brought many benefits; cost savings, efficiency improvements, and agile working; but it has also exposed a weak spot that the cyber criminals are taking full advantage of. Attackers are embracing these same technology trends and innovations – at potentially great cost to the organisations they target.

Join Quorum Cyber’s founder & Chief Executive, Federico Charosky and former Head of the UK National Technical Assistance Centre Robert Hayes, on Tuesday 23rd February, as they discuss the sweet spot between security and innovation and how to achieve the balance without opening your organisation up to the increased risk associated with cyber-attacks.

Event suited for; Board members, senior leaders, and executives (CIO, CTO Director of Technology)

Event Schedule 12:00-13:00

• Intro & Welcome from Federico Charosky, founder & Chief Executive – Quorum Cyber

• Balancing Risk with Robert Hayes

  • Understanding how risk registers can be your friend & how to ensure that risk appetite is actually reflected in what happens in your organisation

  • Balancing opportunity and security – how to achieve this without slowing the pace of innovation

• Q&A

• Close

Join NCC Group’s event as part of Cyber Scotland Week.

Last year NCC Group worked with UK consumer champion Which? to investigate the security of various domestic IoT products – these included Internet connected toys, doorbells, and smart plugs. Our research identified a number of security, privacy and safety issues across most devices, highlighting the need for improved IoT security standards, regulation and certification in order to protect the safety and security of consumers.

In this talk we walk through some of the security and safety vulnerabilities that we uncovered, and show examples of where we had some devices successfully removed from online marketplaces. Moreover, in this presentation we’ll highlight the common areas where domestic IoT security fails; what consumers should look out for, and what they can do themselves by way of secure device configuration and operation to minimise risk.

Register for this session below.

There are many cyber clusters set up in the UK, Europe and globally. The UK alone has over 20 official cyber clusters. So why is there such a focus on and growth in cyber clusters? What benefit do they bring to the local region and to the companies that operate there?

With speakers from DCMS, Scottish cyber cluster, North East England cyber cluster and Cyber Ireland, we will explore what clusters are all about – what benefits do they bring and could they be doing more?

This is also an opportunity to learn about the Scottish, North East England and Irish cyber clusters and gain insights on how to connect and collaborate with these clusters.

We’ll be joined by the following speakers:

• Ciara Mitchell – Cyber Cluster Manager for Scotland
• Phil Jackman – North East England Cluster Manager
• Eoin Byrne – Cyber Ireland Cluster Manager
• Richard Yorke – Director of Cynam, Cheltenham’s cyber cluster,
  and a DCMS Cyber Growth Team representative

This event from Siker Cyber and Scottish Business Resilience Centre is part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

Before SolarWinds, in July 2020, an Atlantic Council feature stated: “Software supply chain attacks are a regular feature of cybersecurity but remain understudied as a tactic of malicious actors and a tool of cyber statecraft”.  Statecraft happens but, the fact remains that non-malicious actors cause the most frequent incidents (91% of breached start with phishing to an unsuspecting person – Deloitte. Jan 2020). With COVID the threat landscape has exponentially increased the opportunity for non-malicious actors to cause breaches, while hackers are using the soft-touch gateways to gain access to supply chains and corporate infrastructure

A panel of experts will discuss vital topics including

1. The most common sources of attacks, referring to incidents, their implications and lessons learned.

2. Everyone has a role to play, because people are the first line of defence.

3. Economic training not only up-skills competency but develops a culture of cyber awareness and protection.

4. Standards, frameworks and taxonomy are the common foundations in building resilience.

5. Better communication via a common lexicon and cultural interaction between IT and Operations reduces risk and accidents.

   Moderator: Peter Meehan, Co-Founder, Cybersecurity Workforce Alliance (CWA), SVP iQ4 Corp.

Panellists:

• Tim Harwood, Founder and CEO, Siker Ltd

• Carol Brooks, Managing Director, Platinum 3P Ltd

• Richard Stevens, Director of Education ASIS UK

• Eamonn Keane, Head of Cyber & Innovation, SBRC
  & more

Our next Cyber Innovation Clinic is running during Cyber Scotland week. 

The pitching companies are Azacus, Zortrex and PolyDigi Tech.

The panelists are:

• Federico Charosky, Managing Director of Quorum Cyber (Host for session)

• Jamie Graves, former CEO of Zonefox

• Malcolm McPhedran, Senior security manager at Capgemini 

• Saj Huq,  Director at LORCA

• Paula Douglas, Account Manager for early stage tech businesses

A great lineup of innovative companies and awesome experts, hosted by the engaging Federico Charosky. An event not to be missed – come join us to hear about these companies and see the experts in action.

This event is part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

Join Celerity, OSP Academy, Cyber Prism and IBM Security in a webinar to discuss issues in the cyber security of Operation Technology (OT).

You’ll learn the learn about the following:

• IoT/OT Landscape and specific threats & vulnerabilities

• IoT Response frameworks and tactics

• Common employee/contractor mistakes and the importance of training

• Cyber Threat Insights – Identifying & Remediating Security Gaps

Speakers:

Martin Smith (Chair) – Managing Director @ Cyber Prism

Keith Chappell – Technical Director @ Cyber Prism

Cian Walker – Strategic Account Executive, Security Technology @ IBM

Tommy McCarthy – QSSHE Director @ OSP Cyber Academy

John Murdoch – BDM @ Celerity Limited

This event is part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

As one of the UK’s leading Universities in cybersecurity teaching and research, Abertay’s network of cyber professionals spans far and wide.

Join Professor Karen Renaud (Visiting Professor at Abertay University) and John Carr, OBE (Internet Safety and Security Consultant), as they discuss what we need to do to keep children safe and secure on-line. This is an essential debate made even more timely by the COVID pandemic.

The live webinar will be hosted by Dr Ian Ferguson, Senior Lecturer at Abertay University. There will be an opportunity to put questions to the panel.

This event is part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021 and is being supported by technology and security specialist Converged Communication Solutions, with a 45-minute interactive presentation and a Q&A opportunity at the end.

The session will be delivered via video conferencing platform Zoom and will be held at 11am on Wednesday, February 24.

As organisations have transitioned to remote working and are relying on digital communication more than ever, many employees and volunteers have fallen victim to cyber threats.

Working together, TechFest and Converged aim to bring an entry level understanding to those at the start of their cyber journey. Topics covered will include: how cyber security affects an organisation, why cyber criminals target charities, what the different types of attacks are and how individuals can identify risks.

The tech specialists will also simplify common IT and cyber jargon as well as explain techniques used by hackers, such as social engineering, which pieces together information from social media profiles in order to access your personal data and hack into accounts.

TechFest and Converged have created a poll for attendees to identify areas of concern in advance so these can be addressed during the event.

Join NCC Group’s event as part of Cyber Scotland Week.

Technology is becoming ever more pervasive in the medical industry, backed by the need to improve the care that is delivered and ease the increasing demands on our healthcare professionals. There is still huge potential for technology to be adopted in new ways, efforts from Government and organisations advocating for technology in this sector are supporting and helping drive innovation.

Patient safety and wellness need to be at the forefront of mind when implementing and using technology, especially as new systems are being rolled out faster than ever before. Patient safety and cyber security are inextricably linked, following security best practices will help reduce the potential for harm.

Register below for this session.

This free webinar to coincide with Cyber Scotland Week 2021 will last an hour and include a Q&A that will be open to the webinar participants.

Jai Aenugu, TechForce will lead and introduce the webinar and will be accompanied by Javvad Malik, KnowBe4.

If you have any questions you would like to send ahead of the go live time, then please email marketing@thetechforce.co.uk

Meet the speakers:

Jai Aenugu, managing director at TechForce, a north-east of Scotland cyber security specialist firm. Jai set up the business in 2017 following a career in IT. His mission is to protect businesses across the UK against the cyber attacks. He is passionate about what he does as he has seen how secure infrastructures work from the ground up. Jai is a seasoned communicator and has spoken at many industry events, on thought leadership videos and podcasts. He has a strong social media following and is vastly becoming Scotland’s ‘go to’ guy when it comes to cybersecurity assurance and expertise.

Javvad Malik is a security awareness advocate for EMEA at KnowBe4. A security professional of 20 years, Malik has begun his career as an IT security administrator. He’s since worked as a consultant, an industry analyst, and a security advocate. Malik is well-known within the information security industry, having spoken at many events and conferences around the world in addition to being a YouTuber, podcaster, blogger, and researcher. With a distinctive style, he takes a fresh and often innovative look at even mundane topics and presents them in an entertaining and informative light. Tackling the most complex issues with ease in this witty style is Malik’s forte.

Providing expert Cyber security guidance, tailored to the work of professionals in FinTech and Financial Services; during Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

Organisations need the cooperation of both The Red Team and The Blue Team in order to get the complete picture of the security posture of their business. The Red Team provides information on all the operations they performed while in ‘attack mode’ and The Blue Team delivers information around the actions they took while in ‘defence mode’ and plugging in any gaps and addressing vulnerabilities that The Red Team exposed. As well as the core deliverable an effective Red Team can provide operational intelligence to help boost the Blue Teams capability.

Join founder and Chief Executive, Federico Charosky and Head of Testing Dan Stewart on Wednesday 24th February as they discuss the mindset of a “strong defence is a strong offense” and how you can mature your Blue Teams capability using Red Team skillsets and ultimately become more resilient to threats.

Securing your applications and keeping customer data safe is vital to your reputation.

In this series of webinars, learn from the UK market leaders in Microsoft Azure AD CIAM (Customer Identity & Access Management). In this series, we’ll cover topics including:

• Identity standards and protocols
• Microsoft Azure AD B2C Basics
• Custom journeys with Identity Experience Framework (IEF)
• Applying your brand and style
• Relying party application on-boarding (OIDC & SAML)
• IdP (identity provider) on-boarding and migration
• BI, reporting and audit
• B2C vs B2B

Through this series you’ll have the opportunity to get under the hood of Microsoft CIAM capabilities and quiz the UK market leaders on common patterns and gotchas.

Each webinar will run for 40 minutes with 15 minutes for Q&A. We’ll make previous webinars available – so if you’ve missed one, don’t worry!

Our speakers:

• David Manning, Architect
• Richard Astley, Architect
• David Downs, Lead Software Engineer

Join NCC Group’s event as part of Cyber Scotland Week.

With our reliance on technology growing by the day it’s important that all organisations treat cybersecurity in the same way they treat fire safety, disaster recovery, and other forms of business resilience.

Tim Anderson – Director at NCC Group, Callum Sinclair – Partner at Burness Paull, and Keith McDevitt of Scottish Government’s Cyber Resilience Unit, will come together using their insight and sharing some anecdotes to speak on this critical topic.

Register for this session below.

Women in Cyber Scotland are having a special event for Cyber Scotland Week 2021 with Jane Frankland, a world renown cyber security influencer, speaker and bestselling author, speaking at this event.

Jane will provide an overview of her successful career in the cyber security sector, sharing insights on how she succeeded in such a male dominated environment, covering aspects such as supporting each other, retaining female talent and encouraging the next generation of females. And will share her thoughts on the key trends for cyber security in 2021!

This event is part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

How does good cyber security and organisational culture prevent staff from developing mental health problems and trauma? Join Decode Cyber Solutions and Trauma Healing Together to find out!

Our webinar will provide you with unique insight into how cyber security threats can impact people’s mental health and wellbeing. We will also look at innovative ways to move cyber security from a technical to an organisational culture centred approach.

This event is part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

Cyber Security remains a boardroom priority.

Covid-19 has piled untold pressure on business: home-working, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and remote access to company informational assets are only some of the huge operational overhauls of 2020. But what about the impact these changes have on Corporate Governance?

As a result of Covid-19, we’ve seen a huge surge in opportunistic cyber-crime. This session highlights the responsibilities and accountability of boards, and ways in which you can determine organisational risk appetite from an informed, critical perspective, without all the usual scare tactics.

We will cover:

– Corporate Governance with specific reference to cyber security

– Basics of Information Assurance

– Understanding Organisational Risk Appetite

– Q&A: Please submit any questions in advance for us to cover in this session

Submit any questions or burning agenda points to nicola@azacus.io

Automation of vulnerability & incident response can yield 6X productivity gain for security & IT teams and be 60% faster at vulnerabilities.

This free webinar to coincide with CyberScotland 2021 will last an hour and include a Q&A that will be open to the webinar participants.

Jai Aenugu, TechForce will lead and introduce the webinar and will be accompanied by Graeme McMillan, Rapid7 and Elliott Went, SentinelOne.

Join CENSIS’ event as part of Cyber Scotland Week.

Our virtual coffee sessions invite you to put the kettle on and join us online for a hosted discussion on an IoT-themed subject. These discussions are not recorded, and are designed to be informal, letting you meet and connect with other companies, researchers and stakeholders working in the same space.

Led by CENSIS cyber security lead, Dr Cade Wells, this discussion will look at the security of IoT networks and the impact on safety of connected systems, and explore some of the challenges that have emerged from the convergence of the cyber and physical worlds.

Register for the session below.

Imagine joining a quiet, friendly organisation staffed largely by millennials and academics as the interim head of change … then being faced with a crisis on a global scale which rocked the company to its core. This is what James Lindsay experienced at Cambridge Analytica in 2018.

In March 2018, multiple media outlets broke a global news story regarding business practices at Cambridge Analytica which involved Facebook data and its uses. The organisation was thrust, almost overnight, into a crisis which ultimately resulted in Cambridge Analytica going into administration in May 2018.

During his career as an interim manager, James has worked with numerous clients on BCM and latterly resilience. He will join us online to explain the mechanics of Cambridge Analytica’s crisis management, as experienced from the heart of the storm. He will share stories of the impact on staff and some of the practical challenges that resulted from such immediate alteration from ‘business as usual’. This is not a discussion of the rights or wrongs of business decisions taken long before James joined the organisation, but a fascinating real-life dissection of the effects on ordinary staff members, key processes put in place to cope and the importance of clear communications strategies.

Whilst this exact circumstance is unlikely to happen to many organisations, parallels can be drawn between other immediately reputation-altering incidents, including cyber-attacks or major supply chain failures, both of which have also been seen already in 2018 and are much more likely to occur to your organisation.

Brought to you by SCVO in partnership with ScotlandIS as part of Cyber Scotland Week.

This event is part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

With many of your staff and students working from home, can you be certain that none of them have a malicious threat on their device, ready and waiting to be unleashed on your network?

Learn how to keep up with the constant evolution of threats by joining Capito and Barracuda’s exclusive Total Email Protection webinar on Thursday, February 25th.

From 11am until noon, you will learn how you can outsmart even the newest tricks cybercriminals use in a post-COVID world and defend your school, college or university from a wide variety of virus and malware threats delivered within email.

Join this event as part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

The shared responsibility model (SRM) is a security-based accountability framework outlining who is responsible for what in the Cloud. This framework doesn’t address the inherent gaps that have been designed into the Cloud to ensure scalability and accessibility.

In this Digital Scotland and Ionburst Cloud joint webinar, we will explore:

• Why the SRM is important?

• What are the key components that make up the SRM?

• How to address the security gap in the SRM?

• Where does Ionburst Cloud bridge the gap in the SRM?

Led by Dr David Lanc, Founder and CEO of Ionburst.

Join this session as part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

Edinburgh Napier University’s Graduate Apprenticeship (GA) programmes allow employers to develop new and existing staff through a fully-funded university degree in BEng (Hons) Cyber Security. GAs are a highly cost-effective way for employers in Scotland to bridge Cyber skills gaps, attract and retain top emerging talent, improve productivity and diversify their workforce. They are available to employers of any size in Scotland, have no upper age limit and there are no fees to pay for employers or apprentices.

In this event we will be interviewing one of our current Graduate Apprentices, Elizabeth, who is studying for a Cyber Security degree while working as a Security Analyst at Quorum Cyber in Edinburgh. You will get the opportunity to hear more about her experience so far, how she got into a Graduate Apprenticeship, day-to-day activities, benefits, challenges, and why you should get involved as an employer or apprentice. You will also have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have.

This session provides a great opportunity for you to better understand how Graduate Apprenticeships work in practice and how you can utilise the opportunity to grow and develop Cyber skills in your business.

Join Glasgow Caledonian University’s event as part of Cyber Scotland Week.

GCU will link with Glasgow School pupils who are studying the Cyber NPA to inspire and support the next generation.

The SolarWinds attack has once again shone a light on the tactics available to combat these potentially existential threats to businesses and nation states alike.

An attack of this magnitude will happen again, so what should we be doing to prepare?

To help celebrate Cyber Scotland Week 2021, i-confidential is joining Quorum Cyber to hold a ‘Lunch & Chat’ Webinar on this important subject. Guest speakers will share observations, tools, and approaches that can help organisations fight back.

Speaker and Agenda Details:

Federico Charosky, Founder & CEO of Quorum Cyber
– A front-line view and insights into the rise of sophisticated cyber-attacks facing organisations.
– Actionable threat Intelligence.
– Proactive defence – reducing risk, increasing resilience, and how to defend your organisation against cyber security breaches and attacks.

Robert Hayes, former Head of the UK National Technical Assistance Centre
– Explaining cyber security risk to your senior executives and board – turning a negative into a positive.
– Working towards ‘Zero Trust’ – understanding risk appetite and conditional trust.
– Responding to cyber-attacks – why communication is just as important as technical expertise.

Simon Lawrence, Director of i-confidential
– Identifying and prioritising your assets from a cyber perspective.
– Reliable Control Measurement.
– Presenting compelling metrics to senior executives.

Bring your sandwich and soup along for what we hope will be a relaxed, informative, and inspiring session!

Join this event as part of Cyber Scotland Week 2021.

The Scotsman presents a thought provoking and insightful debate on how Scotland’s business community and public sector have responded to growing cyber threats since the launch of the Cyber Resilience Strategy in 2015 and what the next steps will be to drive innovation, collaboration, investment and skills to ensure Scotland’s cyber resilience and position as a cyber security leader on the global stage.

Following an opening address by Ivan McKee MSP, Minister for Innovation, Trade & Public Finance, the panel discussion will be chaired by David Lee, Scotsman Events

2021 panellists:

• Ciara Mitchell – Head of Cyber/Cluster Manager, ScotlandIS

• Jude McCorry – Chief Executive, Scottish Business Resilience Centre

• Dr Natalie Coull – Head of Cyber Security Division, Abertay University

• David Ferbrache OBE – Chair of the National Cyber Resilience Advisory Board

Third sector organisations are an underused resource for many patient care scenarios. There are twice as many volunteers in Scotland as the combined workforce of the NHS and Local Authorities. But third sector service providers are not fully integrated with the health and statutory social care community. The biggest challenge in moving to a more integrated and collaborative approach is trust – particularly as the third sector sits outside the legal and technology domains of the public sector.

Join SCVO, Food Train and SICCAR on 25th February at 2pm for this interactive Q&A panel session as part of CyberWeek Scotland to discuss the opportunities for secure collaboration and data sharing between the third and public heath sectors.

This session will feature a real-world example of effective digital collaboration to establish trust between health and third sector organisations, helping reduce food insecurity among older people.

Panelists:

Michelle Carruthers, CEO, Food Train
Alison Stone, Cyber Resilience Co-ordinator, SCVO
Rab Campbell, Director, SICCAR

Yes, we were all a bit sick of GDPR after the legislation was brought in a couple of years ago – however, the digital shift and working at home for the last nine months has brought challenges when it comes to reaching our audiences. We thought it was a good idea to have a bit of a refresher session to ensure that marketers are still as data-savvy as ever and recognise when compliance might be compromised.

Additionally, Brexit has just come into effect. What’s the implication for you when you want to run a new campaign? We’ll still be governed by the DPA but the equivalence agreements are still to be confirmed for PECR and GDPR, will there be any changes you have to make to how you and your team work?

We’ll be joined by Helena Brown, Data, Commercial and IP Partner at Addleshaw Goddard, and Jo McLean, Managing Associate within the Commercial Services division of Addleshaw Goddard. Jo is a specialist in technology, IP, data protection, e-commerce work and competition law. Helena and Jo will lead this session on 25th February, from 3-4pm.

So come along for an update, a chinwag and play along with acronym bingo, it’ll be lovely to see you.