Patrick, CyberFirst: Education lead for NCSC Background = Practitioner, Incident Management, NCSC & GCHQ for the last 7 years focusing on school’s outreach Why do spies care? Our talent pipeline is not diverse or sufficient for us all to have better recruitment choices – lets change that Students often do not know how to prepare…
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DCMS is running workshops over the next three weeks for industry, suppliers, educators and cyber professionals to participate in discussions on the government’s cyber security skills policy and programme direction. These discussions will support the government’s aim to ensure we have the cyber security skills needed to continually enhance the UK’s resilience against growing cyber…
The next phase of the Cyber Aware campaign will launch this Friday, 26 February. The campaign will target small businesses (sole traders and ‘micro’ firms with fewer than 10 employees) and promote six practical steps to help them stay secure online. The campaign will be supported by advertising on radio and social media, with further…
SolarWinds Inc. is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. Peter Jones, The Cyber Badger, explains about the SolarWinds attack: In December 2020, FireEye, a cyber security company, said they were breached. With 18,000 companies affected, FireEye did the industry a favor by detecting…
CompTIA: The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is a leading voice and advocate for the $5 trillion global information technology ecosystem; and the estimated 75 million industry and tech professionals who design, implement, manage, and safeguard the technology that powers the world’s economy. Through collaboration, education, certifications, advocacy and market research, CompTIA advances the industries…
About this Event Cyber Cheltenham (CyNam) brings together the cyber community for their first event of the year, CyNam 21.1: Data Breaches – the New Normal? CyNam 21.1 will be jam packed with discussions, Q&A’s and insight from leading lights in the cyber tech community. With a stellar line up, this is one event you…
The Technology Exploration Lab (TEL) is a new innovative development space based at the Science Park Centre, Exeter. The facility, delivered by SETsquared Exeter, features a workspace equipped with high end computing, AR/VR hardware, large format resin 3D printing, 3D scanning, advanced electronics equipment, and a collaborative project area. It enables the exploration of new digital and fabrication techniques…
It’s back for the 14th time and better than ever – despite COVID’s best attempts. We will be online only this year (okay, COVID gets a passing nod). Secure South West 14 – March 17th 2021 This years event focuses on the 3 cyber security themes of: Business Protection Cyber Security Skills Cyber Security Innovation…
The January Tech Gathering will shine a spotlight on a new collaborative project taking place between three organisations based in Bristol, Exeter and Northern Devon. Backed by funding from the Innovate UK Sustainable Innovation Fund, the SupplyDevon project uses machine learning and A.I. to connect businesses with local suppliers, benefiting the local economy and reducing carbon emissions. The project is…
Overview Durgan from SecureArm outlined the development of the cyber insurance market during this months SWCSC network meeting. Stats In 2019, 11% of businesses had some kind of cyber insurance (99% payout) In 2020, 80% breached of businesses were breached, with 1 SME (small or medium enterprise) compromised every 90 seconds One third of UK…