Cyber Resilience

  • DigiKnow?

    11th July 2019 by

    Kalina, 21, from Aberdeen shares her experience of being part of the young people’s DigiKnow? steering group. In July 2018, I applied to be part of a new cyber resilience based project with Young Scot and after a successful selection day, became a member of a young people’s steering group. In the months that followed,…

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  • CyberFirst Girls Competition 2019 – a chance to shine

    14th January 2019 by

      The CyberFirst Girls Competition is back for 2019 and it promises to be bigger than ever before. In 2017, when we developed the idea of holding a competition to encourage more young girls to study GCSE computer science, I don’t think we appreciated the huge interest that it would generate and the fantastic talent that it…

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  • Cyber resilience is at the heart of digital learning and teaching

    15th May 2018 by

      This week is National Digital Learning Week — an opportunity for Scotland to showcase and celebrate the added value that digital and online technologies bring to young people’s learning. It’s also a chance to restate the importance of cyber resilience in our learning system and curriculum.   What is cyber resilience?   Cyber resilience…

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  • Competition launches to crown UK’s most cyber-savvy girls

    16th January 2018 by

    Female pupils in Scottish schools encouraged to create teams to enter UK cyber challenge Eight teams from Scottish schools finished in competition’s top 100 last year NCSC and GCHQ experts have devised 100 challenges for the teams to crack Global shortage of female cyber security staff – but 8,000 UK girls entered 2017 contest Young…

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  • Cyber Comms Toolkit for January and February 2017 – Protecting New Devices and Keeping Young People Safe Online

    7th February 2017 by

    This post contains awareness raising materials related to the cyber topics: Protecting New Devices and Keeping Young People Safe Online (7th Feb is Safer Internet Day). Please feel free to use the material to best meet your communities needs. How could you use this toolkit? Each month we will ask organisations to use these toolkits to…

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