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Keep Your Online Events Safe and Secure

Free Course: How to keep your CyberScotland Week online event safe and secure

This workshop covers how to keep your online events safe and secure. Based on advice from the National Cyber Security Centre, we will share tips on how to keep your event or conference cyber resilient, and include sensible steps you can take when using conferencing technology facilities, (Zoom, Skype, Hangouts and Teams), to protect your privacy.

No technical knowledge is required to attend – this is suitable for all organisations running online events.

The training will cover:

💻 Practical guidance and best practice for using conferencing technologies facilities (Zoom, Skype, Hangouts, Teams)

🔐 How to help people feel more confident, and safe when using these tools

☑️ How meeting hosts can understand what responsibilities they should consider when running an online event.

This is a one hour course, and will be run:

  • 2pm Thursday 20 January (using Zoom)
  • or 10am Friday 28 January (using Microsoft Teams)

There’s no cost to take part, register here.

We are running this training in partnership with the Scottish Government’s Cyber Resilience Unit, CyberScotland, CyberScotland Week, and ScotlandIS.

CyberScotland Week 2022 takes place Feb 28 – Mar 6

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Recent Feedback

  • “Excellent course! I learned so much and definitely feel more confident in my online security. ”

    Workshop participant

    Aberdeen, Scotland

  • “Clear, concise, simple to understand explanations, brilliant screen sharing & also taking the time to read comments/answer questions, and regular check-ins that people are understanding the course. ”

    Workshop participant

    West Dunbartonshire, Scotland

  • “Daniel and Craig are both very professional and great presenters putting across content in a easy to understand manner. A lot of very useful and important information taking away a lot of the fear surrounding security. Would certainly recommend this course to friends and colleagues”

    Workshop participant

    HMRC Cumbernauld

  • “Workshop was delivered SO WELL! after a year of online presentations this was by far one of the most useful, clear and non- judgmental. Really impressed”

    Workshop participant

    Glasgow, Scotland