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Our regularly updated CyberNorth blog, featuring cyber security sector insights, advice, digital discussion and thought leadership. 

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These posts are regularly updated and feature a mixture of posts from team CyberNorth and cluster community members. If you’d like to write a guest blog – get in touch via hello@cybernorth.biz

CyberFirst – The Path To Cyber / STEM Ambassadorship

With thanks to North East Futures UTC ( https://www.nefuturesutc.co.uk/ ) for hosting CyberNorth’s 2nd February event, we kicked off with a brief description of what NCSC’s national CyberFirst schools programme was all about and how our regional cyber security...

Thoughts on the CyberFirst competition

As a teacher, I am often looking for the best extra-curricular opportunities for my students, but I also have to consider the amount of time it takes to set-up/arrange/implement. I found the CyberFirst competition through a newsletter e-mail last year and have found...

We’re hiring!

CyberNorth Coordinator – Flexible, part time, contract Role Description: CyberNorth is the North East’s cyber security cluster. It brings together 80+ cyber businesses and a host of supporting organisations to share, protect and develop this sector regionally,...

Managing the growing issue of Cyber Security

Introducing the North East Business Resilience Centre and national network  Today, with the advantages that technology gives us in terms of organisation, efficiency andeffectiveness, most businesses are dependent on online technology for managing communication;storing...

Northern Cyber Clusters Collaboration

https://ukc3.co.uk/northern-cyber-clusters-collaboration-project/ We're delighted to announce the new Northern Cyber Cluster Collaboration project! The three cyber security clusters in the North – CyberNorth, North West Cyber Security...

Know More To Grow More Workshops

Are you an SME or micro-SME in the Tyne and Wear or Northumberland region, looking to develop your workforce and grow your business? The 'How to Hire' programme of fully funded business support and guidance sessions delivered by Northumbria University could be exactly...

CyberFirst – Promoting a career in Cyber Security

If you follow the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) LinkedIn feed, you may have already seenoccasional postings regarding their CyberFirst programme. This is a national effort to raise thevisibility of potential careers within the cyber security industry, focusing...

Cyber Resilience Guide for Business Managers

NWG Innovation Festival In Summer 2022, CyberNorth and UKC3 sponsored a series of one day sprints at the Northumbria Water Innovation Festival at Newcastle Racecourse.  On each day those present addressed a challenge by identifying problems in the morning and...

#CyberFest22

We’re back, it’s back. The North East’s biggest cyber security festival is back for its fifth year! Each year when I sit down to plan for the upcoming festival, I say to myself that we won’t have as many events as the last one and yet each year we seem to have more....