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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
Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival day 1
I must admit to being quite tired when writing this. A few days have passed since the amazing Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival and I should have caught up by now but standing in your feet for large parts of the day while trying to focus on broad concepts and...
Empowering Future Cyber STEM Ambassadors: A Recap of the NCSC CyberFirst Event at Teesside University
Introduction:The field of cybersecurity is rapidly growing, and the need for skilled professionals is more important than ever. In line with this, a local NCSC CyberFirst event recently took place in Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, at Teesside University. Organized by...
We’re back at Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival
Northumbrian Water Group’s innovation festivals are big, loud, exciting and very unique events where they gather some of the greatest and most innovative minds from the worlds of business, science, tech, engineering, utilities and customer services and get them to...
Sharing experiences (and cake)
When Phil asked if I’d write a blog about my experience at the recent CyberNorth coffee, cake andcollaboration event, of course I was tempted to use ChatGPT to produce it! It is incredible that Ican input request and be presented with a relevant written document,...
Udder Disaster
I’ve been to VentureFest a few times when it was at Newcastle United’s ground though this is the first time that I have ever presented. It was also the first time that I had been to the Common Room, right next door to the Lit and Phil, which I go to regularly. I have...
Listen – ‘It’s Cyber Up North’
This week we recorded our eleventh episode of ‘It’s Cyber Up North’. The title says it all as this is a podcast about cyber security right here in the region and beyond. It comes in two flavours, one which covers live issues in the rapidly changing cyber security...
NCSC’s CyberFlix and CyberSprinters
In early May, the NCSC is due to launch CyberFlix - a new product to support secondary schools, clubs and youth groups to teach young teenagers about cyber security. CyberFlix will be a free-to-access, interactive video learning resource, aimed at 11-14 year...
Coffee Cake and Collaboration #2
Wednesday 26 April saw CyberNorth’s second coffee, cake and collaboration event with Newcastle University’s Cyber Security and Resilience and Security and Resilient Systems Group. The idea behind these events is to encourage all parts of the cyber security sector to...
The little things that give you away
I always thought of myself as quite cyber savvy (not tech savvy that’s different!). I knew not to writemy passwords down, give out personal information or even duplicate a password for differentwebsites. However, I have realised how easy it is to slip into a level of...
NCSC Cyber Security Education Ecosystem Conference 15/16 March 2023
In my CyberNorth role within the Northeast CyberFirst programme for schools, I attended theNational Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) two-day conference in Leeds, alongside Janine Marshalfrom RTC North (coordinating the admin of regional STEM ambassadors) and Nik Kelsey...
