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Developing An Incident Response Plan
Getting The Basics Right
Cyber Aware
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DIGI Ken?

The CyberScotland Partnership is a collaborative leadership approach to focus efforts on improving cyber resilience across Scotland.

The Scottish Governments key strategic stakeholders have come together in a formal partnership arrangement to drive the delivery of activities that will achieve the outcomes of The Strategic Framework for a Cyber Resilient Scotland.

DIGI Ken?

CyberScotland’s ‘DIGI Ken’ adverts aim to raise awareness of steps that users can take to ensure they stay secure online.

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GUIDANCE

Protecting children and young people online

3 August 2022

If you are a Parent or Carer you will no doubt have concerns about your child or young persons’ access to online activities. In this blog, we share guidance and resources for families to be better informed.

GENERAL

Third Sector Cyber Resilience: Cyber Incident Management Plan

26 July 20229 August 2022

A webinar titled took place last month the topic of incident management planning. Guest speakers from the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) and Sight Scotland spoke about how incident management plans can help prepare for a cyber incident and what to include in those plans.

EVENTS

Cyber Exercising Taster Sessions (Public sector)

25 August 2022 - 10:00 am

This taster session will look at what Exercise in a Box is in detail and how it can benefit your organisation.

EVENTS

Practical Cyber Resilience Skills: Free Course

14 September 2022 - 10:00 am

Learn how to stay safe online at these short online free workshops. This session is delivered remotely and is available to all workers in Scotland. This is a great way to up your cyber security knowledge and confidence. You don’t […]

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Advice & Guidance

The tools and guidance you need to improve your organisation’s cyber resilience. This advice reduces the likelihood of becoming a victim to cyber crime. Or in the event on an attack, how to better handle it and limit its impact.

Incident Response

The NCSC defines a cyber incident as unauthorised access (or attempted access) to an organisation’s IT system/s. These may be malicious attacks such as denial of service attacks, malware infection, ransomware or more commonly phishing attacks.