CyberScotland Week - 27 February - 5 March 2023

14 February 2023

CyberScotland Week draws together events across Scotland designed to make businesses, organisations and individuals more cyber-aware and resilient.

The Three Aims of CyberScotland Week

Protection

Improving cyber resilience knowledge, behaviours, awareness and practice.

Innovation

Showcasing innovative work happening across Scotland's cyber sector.

Skills and Careers

Promoting skills development and a career in cyber security.

Discover the importance of cyber security. Learn more on the CyberScotland website.

What are we doing to Celebrate?

We have arranged for a pop-up stall on the ground floor of The Sir Duncan Rice Library on Monday 27 February, 10am – 2pm & Wednesday 1 March, 10am – 2pm for you to meet our Information Security and Information Governance teams. We’re doing this to allow the community to engage with us and ask any questions.

Competition

Staff and Research Postgraduate students who have completed their Information Security and Data Protection training by the end of the CyberScotland Week will be eligible to win a prize of a £50 Amazon voucher. We will select three of you at random and contact you via your University email account. Look out for an email from the Information Security team if you are a winner.

If you have already completed both courses, thank you, and you do not need to do anything to enter. If you have not completed your courses or you want to check, please login to the Metacompliance platform, https://cloud.metacompliance.com/, to complete the Information Security and Data Protection courses and be entered into the competition automatically.

Cyber Scotland Events

There are over 100 exciting events covering a vast range of subjects at all levels and interests - CyberScotland Week Events.

Some events we would like to highlight are:

Did you know?

30% of UK charities have identified a cyber-attack in the last 12 months, with 87% of these charities reporting phishing attempts.

Of those, 26% of charities estimated attacks at least once a week. Source: (Gov.Uk Survey)

Cybercrime is increasing rapidly, as is our dependence on cyberspace. It's important and affects everyone. With personal, financial and health-related sensitive information stored on the internet, you must know how to protect yourself.

The most common cyber threats include:

Hacking - including social media and email passwords
Phishing - bogus emails asking for security information and personal details
Malicious software – including ransomware through which criminals hijack files and hold them to ransom
Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against websites – often accompanied by extortion

Most cyber-attacks could be prevented by taking basic cyber security steps. (National Crime Agency)