CyberFirst Girls Competition 2022 We’d love your help to spread the word amongst your colleagues, local schools, and friends and family. We’ll soon have a short animation that will be shared on our NCSC Social Media channels #CyberFirst, so please feel free to share or retweet this also. We thank you in advance for your…
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During the SWCSC Networking Meeting that was delivered on Friday, Mike Halliday discussed SW success with the SWCSC-sponsored Cyber Futures project at South Devon College. South West Cyber Futures Programme: Funded by DSCMS via UKC3 Coordinated by SWCSC / TechEd programmes It is a pilot programme, for one single year to support a single year…
CyberFirst Vision: By 2025 CyberFirst will be the UK’s Government recognised brand for Cyber Security education, training and development. Working in partnership with Government, Academia and wide sectors of Industry, CyberFirst will have created a cyber ecosystem that nurtures and develops talented individuals as well as providing pathways into cyber security careers. Through the provision of the necessary skills, knowledge and opportunities, CyberFirst will inspire a future generation of cyber security professionals to keep the UK the safest place to live and…
DCSM have some quick updates that they would like to share: 1. Cyber Security Sector Newsletter: In October we are relaunching the Cyber Security Sector Newsletter on a dedicated newsletter platform and increasing its frequency to monthly. This will enable us to keep the cyber sector more regularly updated on our work, announcements, workshops,…
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 6 We have released the part 6 video of the SSW14 event. During this session, two of the speakers from Part 4 and Part 5…
I just wanted to draw your attention to the newsletter that the Sector Lead in the team at DCMS has created. Please go to the link and use this form to sign up to the DCMS Cyber Security Sector Newsletter so that you can be kept informed of their latest announcements, events and projects. If…
Combatting Malvertising The NCSC for startups programme are launching an enduring challenge based on comabatting Malvertising and are looking for start-ups / SMEs that are developing capability in this space to apply. If you are aware of any organisations in your region that might be interested then please let the Cluster know and we will…
DCMS & Plexal have recently launched Cyber Runway, to support the development, growth and scale-up of cyber start-ups across the UK. They are in the process of identifying companies to bring into the programme and the SWCSC would like to reach out to recognised companies from our region that would benefit from either the…
Background Andy Favell, ex police operations and then made the transition to Cyber. Discussed how to transition into cyber and the skills he had learned through a particular programme. Andy has been re-tooling and re-transitioning, partly due to COVID. Capslock and Andy’s Journey: Capslock is an educational programme, who call themselves an intensive cyber boot…
Cyber Sector Team in DCMS focusing on growth, innovation and skills – Regional Leads Lauren Metalle – South West Daljinder Mattu – Midlands Beck Mulvany – North West Jennie Noble – North East & Yorkshire Our Team and Role: We are regional leads in the Cyber Sector team, with a focus on growth, innovations and…