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Check Your Cyber Security

This free government service for UK organisations performs a range of simple online checks to identify common vulnerabilities in your public-facing IT.

All checks are remote, without the need to install software and uses the same kind of publicly available information as cyber criminals use to find easy targets.

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DigiKnow: Learning Opportunities

Find out about loads of ways you can learn outside of the classroom with ‘Digi Know?’