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Cyber Essentials Readiness Tool

The Cyber Essentials Readiness Tool helps you meet Cyber Essentials requirements. The tool includes questions related to the main Cyber Essentials criteria and provides tailored advice to prepare you for certification.

This resources provides support with Cyber Essentials readiness and certification

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The Cyber Essentials Guide to Working with an External IT Company

Resource to support with Cyber Essentials readiness and certification.

Little Book of Big Scams

This booklet outlines a number of the most common online frauds and scams.

NCSC Cyber related topics

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

Romance Fraud

Police Scotland’s advice on protecting against romance fraud.

Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre – Vulnerability Coordination: Policy and Procedure

Outlines the policy and procedure for Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre (SC3) to alert and, where appropriate, coordinate responses from the Scottish public sector organisations, to cyber-attacks that exploit a previously unknown vulnerability.

Incident response template

This resource helps smaller organisations prepare for a cyber incident and gives a ste-by-step guide on how to deal with it.