SWCSC review of 2021 and plans for 2022. 2021 was a time of innovation and expansion, building a connected ecosystem within the South West.
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Interested in cybersecurity? Unskilled and want to learn more? Skilled and want to share and learn? Keen to meet the SW cyber community? This monthly session is for you. Each month we will have an interesting cybersec presention on a cyber topic of the moment, anything from skills to innovation, forensics to personal privacy and…
In November, we had the opportunity to learn more about Principles Based Assurance led by the NCSC’s Head of Technical Assurance Group (TAG), Helen Lovekin. Cybersecurity is integrated into the fabric of our livelihood; extending from energy and transport, to banking and communications. Our reliance on this technology leaves us vulnerable if it were to…
Each month we will be directing you to the individual Speaker Videos from SSW14 event, so do not fret if you missed this year’s event! SSW14 – Video Release Part 8 We have released the part 8 video of the SSW14 event. Michael (Mike) Gips, Principal of Global Insights in Professional Security, discussed Blockchain. During this…
Background Mike Madden, DASA Innovation Partner South West of England, discussed the Defence and Security Accelerator Overview at the SWCSC Networking Meeting this month. DASA Created 5 years ago Find and fund exploitable innovation to support UK defence and security quickly and effectively, and support UK prosperity Innovation Part of a wider innovation ecosystem across…
Introduction Welcome to the October edition of the techUK Cyber Security Newsletter. Fresh off the press, we saw positive news in Government’s Autumn Budget and Spending Review with a £114 million increase in the National Cyber Security Programme for across the SR21 period to keep adapting, innovating and investing to maintain and extend the UK’s…
Background and Context Awais Rashid – Professor of Cyber Security, University of Bristol National Cyber Security programme funds the CyBOK and Awais is an editor of the book CyBOK: Steering Committee, Executive Board, Representatives Not meant to be an encyclopaedia, its about knowledge not skills: Codify foundational and generally recognised knowledge in cyber security following…
Ipsos MORI Cyber Skills 2022 DCMS and Ipsos MORI’s cyber skills survey: an overview Ipsos MORI carries out an annual survey on skills and recruitment needs among UK cyber sector businesses for DCMS They survey informs DCMS’s policies around cyber skills development and also feed into the actions of the UK Cyber Security Council Your…
Each month we will be directing you to the individual Speaker Videos from SSW14 event, so do not fret if you missed this year’s event! SSW14 – Video Release Part 7 We have released the part 7 video of the SSW14 event. Nigel Jones, Director at Templar Executives, discussed Cyber Security Through Innovation. During this…
During this month’s SWCSC Networking Meeting, Mark Moore has an update progress at the SW Cyber Resilience Centre. South West Cyber Resilience Centre: Police-led organisation, part of a national network, with the purpose to look after SMEs in the third sector in the South West making them more resilient. Supported by Home Office and not…