CyberNorth's November Newsletter

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The North East Cyber Security Cluster

Welcome to CyberNorth's November newsletter.

In this months newsletter, we will be discussing:

Cyber Security skills
Education Ecosystem Workshop
A revisit of #CyberFest21
The CyberNorth Development Team

Cyber Security Skills

Earlier this year CyberNorth carried out some work on cyber security skills and employment opportunities across the region. This resulted in a plan with over 70 issues to be considered. A group of representatives from across the sector are getting together this month to make inroads into the plan. The group has voted on the issues to get the balance of effort against impact and have started with:

How to make the many roles on offer in cyber security attractive to prospective students and employees.
Working with central and regional government to support initiatives such as CyberFirst.
Understanding existing educational and employment pathways into the sector.
Developing and maintaining a register of key people within the sector and region.
Making better us of student placements.
Understanding the different university cultures and offerings

This is a large piece or work that will feed into other skills initiatives taking place across the country. If you are interested in taking part please get in touch.

Education Ecosystem Workshop

Working with the National Cyber Security Centre, CyberNorth will be supporting its North East Cyber Security Education Ecosystem Workshop, to support young people to work in cyber security through initiatives such as CyberFirst.

The event will be held on Wednesday, 24 November 10:00am – 12:00pm at the Dobson Suite, Maldron Hotel, 17 Newgate Street, Newcastle NE1 5RE.

Details will be announced shortly but, if you are interested in attending, please get in touch.

#CyberFest Revisted

#CyberFest has been and gone for this year, though we have started thinking about next year’s. If you missed any of the events, don’t worry as the majority of the events are now posted on Dynamo’s YouTube channel along with the answers to questions raised here.

Cyber security in a rapidly changing world https://youtu.be/8Fhfm9ffHZo
National Cyber Strategy and the North East https://youtu.be/RlhLJrKrHOc
Cyber security and fraud https://youtu.be/w0J7PSociH
Building a cyber security business https://youtu.be/Jb9glIbdUdQ
A region of growing cyber security innovation https://youtu.be/Zvj7eNxR48A
Cyber security skills and employment opportunities https://youtu.be/6FQhqVGdDeQ
Cyber security - It's a rural issue as well https://youtu.be/zRudfWHxUds
Cyber security for children and young people https://youtu.be/GyWDN-ErFu4
Cyber security across manufacturing, industry and supply chains https://youtu.be/xks5kqnV2iI

New CyberNorth Development Team

UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration (UKC3) funding has enabled CyberNorth to expand by bringing a small team together up until the end of March 22. Its focus will be on gaining a better understanding of the cyber security sector across the region:

Thea Scott, will be focussing on the local cyber security market, Danielle Phillips and Oliwia Tyralska will be focusing on business support, while Rachel Horton will be focussing on business planning and promotion. Over the coming few months they will be in touch with some of you as part of their information gathering exercise. The preliminary results of their work will be made available at our event planned for January 22 - details to follow.

About CyberNorth

CyberNorth is Dynamo North East’s cybersecurity cluster, supported by Accenture, the Innovation SuperNetwork and recognised by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the National Cybersecurity Centre as representing the region.

CyberNorth is working to support all organisations across the regional cybersecurity ecosystem including seventy cybersecurity service suppliers, support services providers, consumers of cybersecurity services, academia, government, other public sectors including blue light organisations, media and policy makers.

The cluster’s aim is to position the North East as a great place to deliver cybersecurity services, you can follow us on Twitter @north_biz

Last month’s newsletter can be found here.

Contact Us

If you would like any further information on the contents of this newsletter, or any other related issue then please contact me, Phil Jackman at info@dynamonortheast.co.uk

DYNAMO MEMBERSHIP

Finally, Dynamo North East is a business focused organisation that is working to grow the tech economy across the North East. It is doing this in three ways: by making a lot of noise about the region through events, supporting inward investment and building clusters. If you are interested in being part of this movement, details of membership are here.