National Cyber Security Centre

Cyber criminals are active and persistent, so we must be too 🤸♀️ Use our Active Cyber Defence services to safeguard your organisation from common threats facing us all👇

Shopping for #BlackFriday? Between November 2023 and January 2024, over 16,500 people lost more than £11.5M to scammers! Keep cyber criminals from landing a blow to your wallet with our top tip for securing your important accounts. #StopThinkFraud Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e53VcW7w

If only everything could be broken down into 10 Steps... Fortunately cyber security for larger organisations with 250+ staff can be. Our comprehensive guide includes risk management, training, access management and supply chain security⬇️

The CyberFirst Girls Competition is in full swing! As ever, we want to celebrate your hard work and passion for cyber, so share pictures of your students diving into the world of cybersecurity with the hashtag #CyberFirstGirls or tag the National Cyber Security Centre. Don't forget ⚠️ Registration is still open! If you haven't signed up yet, there's still time. Good luck to everyone taking part!

Teachers, your school could receive laptops for taking part in the #CyberFirst Girls Competition! 💻 Our CyberFirst partner, Deloitte will be providing 350 laptops to schools, with a focus on pupil premium funding and other qualifying criteria. With the aim of boosting pupils' learning and closing the digital skills gap. Further details will be provided to schools when taking part in the competition and there's still time to register! 👩💻

Public sector 👩⚕️, academia 🎓 and charity organisations 🎗️ Protect your websites from the most common threats with Web Check. Web Check tells you: 😟 what you need to worry about ⏳ when you need to worry about it 🔧 what you need to do about it.

Huge thanks to everyone who has given their time to filling in our Cyber Expertise Diversity Survey. And many thanks to all of you who have kindly shared my post to your networks and encouraged your colleagues to take part. The survey is staying open until the end of November. If you have been thinking of responding, please do! Or if you can think of individuals or groups to whom it might be relevant, please do share and encourage them to take part: we're interested in hearing from cyber security professionals in all fields, sectors and career stages. Tell us what your 'comb' of cyber expertise looks like! The survey is run by the University of Warwick, as part of a fellowship with the National Cyber Security Centre funded Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS) https://lnkd.in/e4e6zhV2

Why should you report phishing scams? We, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), have the power to investigate and take down scam email addresses and websites. Protect yourself and others from cyber crime online⬇️

Alongside Action Fraud, we are today issuing an urgent warning to Black Friday bargain hunters as newly published figures reveal rising losses to online scammers during the festive shopping period. Shoppers lost over £11 million to cyber criminals during last year’s festive shopping period, with clothing, high-end tech products and cars among the most common products cited as bait used by scammers. The new figures have been released as the NCSC launches a national campaign to encourage people to turn on 2-step verification (2SV) to help protect their online accounts.

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