Incident response

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Incident Management

The NCSC defines a cyber security incident as:

A breach of a system’s security policy in order to affect its integrity or availability
The unauthorised access or attempted access to a system

Cyber incidents can take many forms, such as denial of service, malware, ransomware or phishing attacks.

Related resources

Phishing – how to report to the NCSC

How to report a phishing email to the NCSC.

Protective DNS for the private sector

Advice on the selection and deployment of protective Domain Name Systems (DNS).

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.

Large Organisations

Cyber security advice for businesses, charities and critical national infrastructure with more than 250 employees. You are likely to have a dedicated team managing your cyber security.

NCSC Cyber related topics

NCSC’s list of the broad range of cyber security related topics that their advice and guidance covers.

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 […]