Scotland’s Digital Security and Cybercrime Staff Skills Shortage: Addressing the Issues
28/06/2012 17:15
Outline
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This symposium aims to bring together businesses, public sector organisations and
education providers, to discuss the upskilling of the Scottish
workforce in the face of new and emerging threats around digital security and
cybercrime.
With
a cyber security problem costing Scottish businesses an estimated £5 billion a
year, do our staff have the specific skills required to tackle the issues head
on?
Agenda
5.15pm-6pm – Registration, drinks/canapés and
networking
6pm-7.30pm – Presentations:
- Introduction: Tom McEwan, Edinburgh Napier
University.
- Speaker: Eamonn Keane, Detective Inspector,
SCDEA E-Crime.
- Speaker: Federico Charosky, Managing
Consultant, Vacta Security Science.
- Speaker: Professor Bill Buchanan, Director of
CDCS, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University.
- Summary: Tom McEwan
7.30pm-8pm – Networking, drinks/canapés and close
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Associated people
Director of CDCS
w.buchanan@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2759
Senior Lecturer
t.mcewan@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2793
Senior Lecturer
a.varey@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2725
Lecturer
r.macfarlane@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2335
Senior Lecturer
g.russell@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2754
Electronic information now plays a vital role in almost every aspect of our daily lives. So the need for a secure and trustworthy online infrastructure is more important than ever. without it, not only the growth of the internet but our personal interactions and the economy itself could be at risk.