New Cyber-guide Advising Scots Firms on Digital Dangers
Welcome to the latest edition of the DIGIT Tech News Roundup. ?
In this week’s newsletter we will cover some of our top-trending news stories, features and op-eds from the week beginning 22nd August.?
Fintech Summit 2022?
Our next conference is the Fintech Summit, held live and in-person at Edinburgh’s Dynamic Earth on 15th September. ?
Now in its ninth year, the Fintech Summit is Scotland’s largest annual gathering for financial technology professionals, providing an opportunity to reconnect with industry peers, build new relationships and explore the latest developments across the sector. ?
To secure your free place at the Summit, please visit: www.fintech-summit.co.uk ?
DIGIT’s top-trending stories?
New Cyber-crime guide provides Scots firms with vital advice?
A new cyber-crime guide for employee training has been unveiled by CyberScotland, free to download by any Scottish organisation and its staff.?
The government-backed CyberScotland Partnership is providing easy-to-understand advice on most common cyber-attacks.?
The online resource is a comprehensive explanation of the most common cyber-attacks and how to avoid falling victim to them. It also provides instructions on developing secure passwords and protecting accounts.?
Action for Children’s Boycott Your Bed fundraising event returns?
After a two-year absence, Action for Children’s Boycott Your Bed returns on Friday 7th October, with teams of sleepers coming together at five locations across the UK, including Blythswood Square Gardens in Glasgow City Centre.?
Teams taking part are being asked to fundraise in the lead up to the event and on the night they will all come together for a unique bonding experience.?
Businesses are being encouraged to sign up, team up and sleep out for one night to help raise funds to support the most vulnerable families struggling through the cost-of-living crisis.?
How is digital twin technology optimising Orkney’s buildings??
Orkney Islands Council has used pioneering digital twin tech to optimise operational performance, energy efficiency and air quality across its building portfolio.?
Working in partnership with climate tech solution provider, IES, the council has been able to centralise its building data into a single platform. The data was previously fragmented across various systems and logins.?
Migrating to a single interface allows the council to quickly identify issues and manage buildings from one location, removing the typical challenges many local authorities face when it comes to dealing with vast amounts of building data from various disparate systems.?
Twelve more Scots startups chosen for MSIP accelerator?
Twelve young companies have been successful in applying to take part in Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc’s (MSIP) latest accelerator programme.?
MSIP, a joint venture between Michelin, Dundee City Council and Scottish Enterprise, is a parc in Dundee for sustainable mobility and decarbonisation, which aims to drive growth and diversity in the Scottish economy whilst addressing the global climate emergency.?
Part funded by Scottish Enterprise and delivered by Skillfluence, the MSIP Accelerator has been specifically designed to help young companies who are developing new solutions in sustainable mobility and decarbonisation achieve a step-change in their business.?
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Bruntwood Scitech doubles Scottish tech investment?
Bruntwood SciTech has revealed plans to double its investment into Glasgow, totalling ￡60m.?
The announcement comes three months after acquiring and announcing the redevelopment of their first digital and tech hub in Scotland, at Met Tower in the heart of the city’s innovation district.?
The property and innovation services provider will develop a new workspace of more than 100,000 sq ft adjacent to the Grade B listed Met Tower, adding a further ￡30m of investment to the new city centre tech and digital cluster.?
Business Gateway helps Scottish marketing firm reach net zero?
Business Gateway and Scottish digital upskilling programme DigitalBoost have helped digital marketing firm Crunchy Carrots achieve net zero status.?
The group’s Founder and Managing Director Scott Henderson received advice, support, and signposting to funding worth over ￡14,000.?
Based in Falkirk, the digital marketing firm has a network extending across Scotland’s central belt, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.?
Check out our latest long reads?
How Scotland’s IT infrastructure has transformed public services?
There’s been no shortage of press in the last few years vaunting Scotland’s place within not only ‘tech city’ rankings, but as places for high-growth businesses and startups to flourish.?
We speak to Capita’s Solution Director, Tom McLaughlin and Managing Director of Capita Public Service in Scotland Melony Buchanan, to discuss how Capita has led public service digital transformation in Scotland for nearly a decade.?
Comment: Boosting online resilience to cyber-threats?
Recently, the firm that supplies software to 85% of NHS services fell victim to a massive cyber-attack, bringing its online systems to a grinding halt and leaving pharmacists, hospitals, and thousands of people without access to vital services, including NHS 111.?
In a contributed piece for DIGIT, Doug Cunningham, CTO of Forrit, discusses the alarming rise in cyber-attacks and what businesses can do to defend themselves.?
Valuing people from different career backgrounds?
By having a diverse team of people working on projects, AND Digital says it helps them reflect their approach to clients in a rich and meaningful way – and also makes it a much more interesting and fun place to work.?
Fiona Burton, Club Executive of AND Digital’s newly opened second club in Edinburgh, Club Grace, spoke to us about why she changed her advertising career for tech – and why AND Digital encourages vocationally diverse backgrounds.?
DIGIT Events | Join us in-person!
We understand the last two years has introduced new ways of working and coming back to in-person events may need a little more time to plan. ?
So, we’ve released our full event calendar for 2022 to help you plan around work and other commitments to ensure you can join us. ?