Do you know how cyber resilient your organisation is?
In today’s complex threat landscape, organisations face the daunting challenge of ensuring their workforce is prepared to confront and mitigate potential attacks. Despite this need, many businesses lack adequate data...
Police Scotland’s cybercrime harm prevention team issues warning on ‘remote access scams’
The use of remote access software in committing crime online is not very well known, let alone how easily criminals use this method to attack unassuming victims. Remote access scams...
Entrepreneur sets up cybersecurity service after his late grandfather was victim of online scam
An entrepreneur has set up a cybersecurity service designed to protect the over 50s from fraud – inspired by the story of his late grandfather who fell victim to online...
National Cyber Security Centre chief urges public sector organisations to understand their exposure to cyber risk
The new head of Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre has urged public sector organisations to understand their exposure to cyber risk, including through their supply chains. Richard Horne, the chief...
Security operations centre aims to give Scottish local authorities ‘peace of mind’
Local councils across Scotland will be able to access a national security operations centre (SOC) service that provides ‘round-the-clock’ threat detection and monitoring to prevent cyberattacks. A market engagement exercise...
Academics and business leaders launch Scottish ‘centre of excellence for digital trust’
Academics and business leaders have launched a Scottish ‘centre of excellence for digital trust and distributed ledger technology’ – to support online safety in key sectors including finance and healthcare....
Over 200 legacy systems identified in national audit highlighting ‘severe and advancing’ cybersecurity threat to UK government services
More than 200 legacy systems have been identified in a national audit highlighting the ‘severe and advancing’ cybersecurity threat to UK government services. Spending watchdog the National Audit Office has...
Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland to become ‘social enterprise’ as part of values-driven focus
Scotland’s leading cyber and fraud hub is to become a social enterprise as part of its commitment to providing affordable and accessible cyber skills to Scottish businesses. Cyber and Fraud...
Hear the inside story of the fight against cybercrime
The global “Five Eyes” security alliance will top the bill at Futurescot’s Cyber Security 2025 conference in February. Members of the Anglosphere intelligence alliance will share the latest on evolving cyber...
Boost for Scottish local council cyber defences with launch of £13 million ‘security operations centre’ procurement
Scottish local councils are set to benefit from the launch of a collaborative security operations centre tender to boost cyber defences. Scotland Excel – the local government procurement body –...
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