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Digital, Data and Technology Profession, Skills and Capability

The Scottish Digital Academy was launched in 2017 to provide high quality professional learning and training to support the development of digital skills and capability across the public and third sectors in Scotland.

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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 […]

Multi-factor authentication for your corporate online services

This guidance describes how administrators responsible for managing access to online digital services for their organisation can apply the strongest types of multi-factor authentication (MFA). It describes the various types of MFA that are commonly available, explains some pitfalls to […]

Weekly Threat Reports

The latest NCSC weekly threat reports.

Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials is a simple but effective, Government backed scheme that will help you to protect your organisation, whatever its size, against a whole range of the most common cyber attacks.

SDS Case Studies

Hear from individuals and business across Scotland that are creating game-changing products and technological innovation with digital at their heart.

Passwords & Two-Step Verification

This guide explains how to create strong, unique passwords (for example using three random words) and why you should never reuse passwords across accounts. It also introduces Two‑Step Verification (2SV) – also called Two‑Factor Authentication (2FA) – as a vital […]