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Cyber Resilience Framework

Provide a common, effective way for Scottish public sector organisations to assess their cyber resilience arrangements, identify areas of strength and weakness, gain reasonable confidence that they are adhering to minimum cyber resilience requirements, and take decisions on how/whether to achieve higher levels of cyber resilience on a risk-based and proportionate basis.

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Risk Management

The key types of risk that can affect your voluntary organisation and the importance of risk policy. Resource to support good governance when it comes to digital.

Cyber Capability Toolkit

Cyber capability toolkit to help organisations develop plans for responding to the threat of cyber attacks.

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.

Cyber Essentials

A simple, government-backed scheme to protect organisations of any size from common cyber attacks.

Child Protection

Child protection means protecting a child from abuse or neglect, which may cause significant harm. Police Scotland has some advice and information on how to report child abuse or neglect.

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 […]