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Reports and Advisories

The NCSC’s response, reports and advisories on cyber security matters affecting the UK.

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Police Scotland’s Cyber Security Strategy 2020

This strategy sets out how Police Scotland will take a proactive approach to respond to cyber demand, ensuring that we are future focused and able to adapt our policing model to suit the needs of the communities they serve.

Board Toolkit

NCSC’s Board Toolkit will provide you with the tools you need to have the necessary conversations with your IT team/supplier.

CSPST: Guidance for buyers

Guidance for buyers on embedding use of Cyber Security Procurement Support Tool into the procurement process.

Exercise in a box

Exercise in a box is an NCSC online tool which helps organisations find out how resilient they are to cyber-attacks and to help them practice their response. The service provides exercises, based around the main cyber threats which your organisation […]

Public Sector Cyber Incident Co-ordination Procedure

Outlines the procedures for notifying and coordinating responses to notifiable cyber incidents affecting Scotland’s public services. It defines the agreed-upon cyber incident notification process adopted by the Scottish public sector since 2018.

Sextortion

Sextortion is a type of cyber-enabled extortion which involves the threat of sharing sexual information, images or clips to extort money from you, whether images actually exist or not. Police Scotland have advice on what you can do to reduce […]