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Building a Cyber Education Ecosystem

Overview Sarah Hancock, CyberFirst with NCSC, discussed about building a cyber education ecosystem and to enhance diversity within the Cyber Security industry during June’s SWCSC Networking Meeting. Building a Cyber Education Ecosystem Improve the skills and diversity gap within the Cyber Security industry by building a journey so they understand the depth of Cyber Security…

Supporting FE Courses with Cyber Experience

Background Mike Halliday, TechEd Programmes Ltd, discussed Supporting FE Courses with Cyber Experience at this month’s SWCSC Networking Meeting. Cyber Security Education & Industry Cyber Security education and the trend of neurodiversity students within the Cyber community South West Cyber Futures Programme – building a cyber skills pipeline of the region Need to find a…

Cyber Platform for Salute my Jobs

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Overview Andrew Jackson from Salute my Jobs spoke at this month’s SWCSC Networking Meeting detailing the Cyber Platform for the Armed Forces Community. About Salute my Jobs: Andrew runs a Social Enterprise called Salute my Jobs Built around the principle that there is a world out there to help people with what steps to take…

A Chance to Influence & Shape the Cyber Security Education Ecosystem for the SW – 21/06/2021

The NCSC CyberFirst team invites you to a collaborative workshop on July 1st, 2.30pm-4.30pm, to begin modelling the cyber security education eco-system for the South West. This is an exclusive invite and we are looking for a small number of representatives from across industry, academia, education & government. This event will support the governments’ emerging Cyber…

ISO27001 Latest

Background Darren Grey, Securious Ltd, is a Lead Implementer of ISO 27001 and discussed the standard during June’s SWCSC Networking Meeting. ISO27001  Is a justified risk management framework Establish, implement, maintain and continually improve an ISMS – never ending process, always learning and improving Ensures the organisation’s assess and monitors risk to InfoSec Implement controls…

Cyber Essentials Update

Background Ann Barron from Securious Ltd is a Security Consultant – as well as a CE and CE Plus assessor.  On this month’s SWCSC Networking Meeting, Ann delivered a talk on Cyber Essentials and the latest update of the scheme. Cyber Essentials Provides organisations with an opportunity that protects their security against the 5 technical…