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Cyber Aware Action Plan

Learn how to protect yourself or your small business online with the Cyber Aware Action Plan. Answer a few questions on topics like passwords and two-factor authentication, and get a free personalised list of actions that will help you improve your cyber security.

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NCSC Cyber related topics

NCSC’s list of the broad range of cyber security related topics that their advice and guidance covers.

Keep Secure Online

Police Scotland’s advice and tips on how to keep yourself and your children safe online.

Supporting guidance for public bodies

Resources to help public sector bodies embed cyber resilience into the supply chain process.

Exercise in a box

Exercise in a box is an NCSC online tool which helps organisations find out how resilient they are to cyber-attacks and to help them practice their response. The service provides exercises, based around the main cyber threats which your organisation […]

Sextortion

Sextortion is a type of cyber-enabled extortion which involves the threat of sharing sexual information, images or clips to extort money from you, whether images actually exist or not. Police Scotland have advice on what you can do to reduce […]

The Strategic Framework for a Cyber Resilient Scotland

This Framework sets out Scotland’s vision for a cyber resilient Scotland and includes refreshed action plans.