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...

CyberFirst Ambassador Information Session at Virgin Money

Thanks go to Virgin Money (Gosforth) for hosting our latest event on 6 March. RTC North, working with CyberNorth invited along North East regional companies who were either running existing corporate STEM Ambassador (science, technology, engineering, and maths)...

CyberNorth takes part in UKC3 Pan-cluster Event

I’m proud to say that I have been involved with the UK CYber Cluster Collaboration (UKC3) ever since its inception. Getting the company off the ground was great fun and, whilst enjoyable, it has been hard work ever since. The idea behind UKC3 came from a collaboration...

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...