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There Is No Cyber Security Skills Gap
Dec 3, 2013There is no cyber security skills gap, according to the head of business continuity and information security at The Economist, Vicki Gavin. A National Audit Office (NAO) report earlier this year said that it could take 20 years to address ...
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CSC UK Is a Government- and Industry-Backed Initiative
Oct 30, 2013The Cyber Security Challenge UK (CSC UK), a series of national events designed to encourage talented professionals to join the UK IT security industry, is a government- and industry-backed initiative that has enabled 40 participants to ...
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E-Skills and The Cyber Security Challenge Have Joined Forces to Launch Separate Programmes
Sep 16, 2013Skills body e-skills UK and the Cyber Security Challenge have joined forces to launch separate programmes that complement each other, in a bid to make the cyber security profession more appealing to secondary school students. The Cyber ...
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Degree-Level Apprenticeships as Part of an Employer-Backed "Cyber Academy"
Sep 3, 2013Degree-level apprenticeships in cyber security have been launched in the UK as part of an employer-backed "Cyber Academy". The Cyber Academy, which was launched by the National Skills Academy for IT and e-skills UK, will see employers ...
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Government Is Working to Create Different Entry Routes to The Cyber Security Profession
Sep 2, 2013Minister of state for universities and science David Willetts has exclusively told Computing that the government is working to create different entry routes to the cyber security profession. In December last year, the government released ...
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Cybersecurity Teamed up to Go in Search of Students Aged From 14 to 16
Jun 12, 2013The Cabinet Office and Cyber Security Challenge UK have teamed up to go in search of students aged from 14 to 16 who have "the potential to become professional cyber defenders". With support from security companies including QinetiQ, ...
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The IET Is Trying to Raise Awareness of The Need for Cyber Security Skills
May 13, 2013Teaching engineers cyber security skills is vital in order to protect the UK's critical national infrastructure, according to cyber expert at the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Hugh Boyes. The IET is trying to raise ...
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The Devotion of £500,000 a Year Is to Be Sited
Apr 11, 2013Foreign secretary William Hague has announced the devotion of £500,000 a year to the opening and running of a global cyber research centre to be sited at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. The Global Centre for ...
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The Government's Investment in Cyber Security Is Embarrassing
Apr 8, 2013The government's investment in cyber security is embarrassing, according to security experts. The government announced plans to invest £650m over a four-year period on cyber security, after the 2010 National Security Strategy rated ...
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The Government Announced The UK Cyber Security Strategy at The Back End of 2011
Apr 7, 2013The government announced the UK cyber security strategy at the back end of 2011 to protect national interests by building a trusted and resilient digital environment. It revealed plans to invest £650m over a four-year period from ...
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GCHQ Has Launched a Institute to Investigate New Ways of Automatically Analysing Software
Mar 22, 2013The government's spy agency, GCHQ, has launched an Academic Research Institute to investigate new ways of automatically analysing software to reduce its vulnerability to cyber threats. It is the second institute focused on cyber security ...
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CSC Is Not Only About Recruiting Talent
Mar 14, 2013The Cyber Security Challenge (CSC) is not only about recruiting talent, but is aimed at raising awareness and widening the IT security talent pool, according to the competition's CEO, Stephanie Danan. Danan was responding to Computing's ...
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The Cyber Security Challenge Has Just Announced Its Latest Winner
Mar 12, 2013The Cyber Security Challenge, a series of national events designed to encourage talented professionals to join the UK IT security industry, has just announced its latest winner, 28-year-old chemist Stephen Miller. Government cyber ...
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CISOs Slated Bigger Security Software Vendors for Lagging Behind Smaller Rivals
Jan 17, 2013The chief information security officers (CISOs) of Network Rail, Commerzbank and law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse have slated bigger security software vendors for lagging behind smaller rivals in mobile security. In a panel discussion ...
Tags: Network Rail, Field Fisher Waterhouse, security software, mobile security
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BT to Extend Its Cyber Security Agreement with MOD in a Deal
Dec 28, 2012BT is to extend its cyber security agreement with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in a deal that will see the company expand its cyber defence service. BT said work had already begun on the seven-year agreement that builds on an existing ...