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10 Steps to Cyber Security

This guidance aims to help organisations manage their cyber security risks by breaking down the task of protecting the organisation into 10 components. It is aimed at medium to large organisations that have someone dedicated to managing the organisation’s cyber security.

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Cyber Security Toolkit for Boards

Resources designed to help board members govern cyber risk more effectively.

Social Engineering Guidance

This guide explains how criminals manipulate people – rather than systems – to gain access to information or control. It explores common tactics like impersonation, urgency and exploitation of trust and then provides practical steps for recognising and resisting such […]

CSPST: Guidance for buyers

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

Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety

Helpful resources which practitioners and educators can use with learners and to support learning at home on the topics of cyber resilience and internet safety.

Supporting guidance for public bodies

Resources to help public sector bodies embed cyber resilience into the supply chain process.

Sextortion Guidance

Sextortion is sexual extortion where the victim is exploited through threat of the exposure of intimate images and is usually for financial gain or as a means of controlling behaviour. Police Scotland have provided information and advice on how to […]