CyberScotland

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Last activity: 03.07.2026

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The CyberScotland Partnership is a collaboration of key strategic stakeholders, brought together to focus efforts on improving cyber resilience across Scotland.

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Location

United Kingdom, Scotland, City of Edinburgh

Employees

1-10

Founded date

2018

Mentions in press and media 24

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Jun 24, 2026	CyberScotland Partnership Appoints New Chair	The CyberScotland Partnership has announced the appointment of Theresa Swayne, Head of Digital Economy at Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), as its new Chair. Theresa succeeds Karen Meechan, former CEO of ScotlandIS, bringing a wealth ...
Mar 27, 2026	Karen Meechan Announces Departure From ScotlandIS	Karen Meechan is stepping down as CEO of ScotlandIS, the membership and cluster management organisation for Scotland’s technologies industry, after 22 years at the company. Meechan is set to depart on 29 May 2026, but will continue to suppo...
Nov 19, 2025	CyberScotland Week 2026 to Focus on Practical Cyber Resilience	Businesses, organisations and community groups across Scotland are being encouraged to host or sign up to an event as part of CyberScotland Week 2026, which will take place from 23 to 28 February 2026. The launch of CyberScotland Week 2026 ...
Aug 4, 2025	Karen Meechan Appointed as New CyberScotland Chair	The CyberScotland Partnership (CSP) has appointed Karen Meechan, CEO of ScotlandIS, as the new Chair of the Partnership, which came into effect on 1 August, 2025. Karen succeeds Clare El Azebbi, Head of the Scottish Government’s National Cy...
Mar 3, 2025	Scotland's Tech Landscape: A Flourishing Ecosystem of Innovation and Growth	Scotland's tech scene is buzzing. It's a vibrant tapestry woven with innovation, ambition, and collaboration. In February 2025, the Scottish tech ecosystem showcased its strength through a series of significant developments. From strategic ...
Mar 3, 2025	Movers & Shakers \| February 2025	Welcome to the February 2025 edition of DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers! Each month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem. This August has been another bumper month, with many innova...
Feb 25, 2025	CyberScotland Expands With Three New Partners	The CyberScotland Partnership has announced the addition of three new Partners: The Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre (SC3), the Local Government Digital Office, and Age Scotland. The expansion comes during CyberScotland Week 2025, which i...
Feb 24, 2025	CyberScotland Week 2025: A Digital Fortress in the Making	CyberScotland Week 2025 is more than just a series of events. It’s a rallying cry for a nation grappling with the shadows of cyber threats. From February 24 to March 3, Scotland transforms into a hub of cybersecurity awareness and education...
Feb 20, 2025	What’s Happening During CyberScotland Week 2025?	CyberScotland Week 2025 is about to kick off, packed full of conferences, workshops, and panel discussions focusing on cybersecurity across Scotland. The week-long event offers in-person and online events focused on a central theme of “Can’...
Oct 29, 2024	Businesses Encouraged to Host an Event for CyberScotland Week 2025	Businesses and community groups in Scotland are being urged to sign up to host an event as part of CyberScotland Week 2025. The theme of the awareness week, which will take place from 24 February to 2 March 2025, is ‘Can’t hack it?’, highli...
Feb 28, 2024	CyberScotland Week: New App Gives Users Real-time Cyber Alerts	This CyberScotland Week, the Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland team is unveiling a new app which will deliver cyber and fraud threat alerts to organisations throughout Scotland. With three threat severity levels, the Cyber and Fraud Centre ...
Feb 20, 2024	CyberScotland Week: Improving Cyber Hygiene in Scottish Schools	Cyber-attacks in schools are increasing year on year: research from the Department for Education shows that 21% of schools in the UK are experiencing cyber-attacks weekly. But why are they such popular targets? School systems are viewed as ...
Feb 14, 2024	CyberScotland Week Partners with Scots Comedian for Online Safety Campaign	With CyberScotland Week on the horizon, a social media campaign has launched to bring attention to the common pitfalls of cyber safety. With only 26% of adults following advice to use three random words in their passwords, the campaign, cre...
Jul 17, 2023	Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland Expands Cybercrime Response Network	Scotland’s leading organisation for building resilience against cybercrime and fraud has warned businesses that they must have a plan in place to counter attacks, as it adds two legal firms and four new IT and security firms to its cadre in...
Apr 11, 2023	CyberScotland Partnership Offers SMEs Free Cybersecurity Handbook	A new guide has been produced by CyberScotland Partnership to help SMEs combat ever-growing cybersecurity threats. The Cyber Strategy for Small Organisations’ guidebook has been written specifically for people without any technical backgrou...
Feb 2, 2023	CyberScotland Week to Highlight Growing Threat of Cyber-crime	The national impact of cyber-crime is growing. The NCSC reported it had stopped 2.1 million malicious cyber attacks in 2022, meaning that it is more important than ever that awareness around cyber crime is high. In parallel, the UK governme...
Apr 8, 2022	DIGIT Movers and Shakers \| March 2022	Recruitment Hamilton Forth Hamilton Forth, a part of the Livingston James Group, has strengthened its team of digital and technology recruiters with the appointment of two new consultants, Lynne Munro and Hazel Swan. Munro and Swan join the...
Dec 13, 2021	CyberScotland Partnership: 6 Potential Cyberthreats in 2022	2021 saw cyberattacks reach practically every facey of business and industry – from Kaseya, Tesco and your OS, to the thousands of smaller businesses becoming increasingly the target of Nation State attacks – no one was safe. Chances are, c...
Oct 25, 2021	Scotland to Make Cybersecurity Advice More Accessible	With funding from the Scottish Government, the widening access to National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) advice has been developed by Lead Scotland in new formats accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, visually impaired, have ...
Oct 6, 2021	Patrolling the Cyber-state with Police Scotland DSU, Alex Dowall	Cybercrime in Scotland has almost doubled in 2021. The pandemic and subsequent global boost in digital adoption catalysing what is undoubtedly a grim statistic. Threat actors are pushing the boundaries of what is possible online, scamming u...
Jun 30, 2021	Cyber Basics \| The Essentials for Improved Cybersecurity	National restrictions may be receding, but many of the effects of the global pandemic will live on, including the huge expansion and acceptance of remote working. Delivering this ability to operate and communicate, all while abiding by phys...
May 20, 2021	CyberScotland Chair to Lead the Battle Against Cyber Crime	A group of 10 organisations has appointed Jude McCorry to chair its CyberScotland Steering Group and help provide additional information around cybersecurity. The CyberScotland Partnership, which includes the Scottish Government and Police ...
Feb 23, 2021	New CyberScotland Partnership to Support Nation’s Cyber Resilience	10 strategic organisations across Scotland, including the SBRC, Scottish Government and Police Scotland, have joined the CyberScotland Partnership. The Partnership will work to ensure individuals and organisations throughout Scotland can ea...

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FAQ about CyberScotland

When was CyberScotland founded?

CyberScotland was founded in 2018.

What has the press written about CyberScotland?

Parsers VC has collected 24 articles mentioning CyberScotland, among them “CyberScotland Partnership Appoints New Chair” (Jun 24, 2026) and “Karen Meechan Announces Departure From ScotlandIS” (Mar 27, 2026).

Is CyberScotland still active?

Yes, CyberScotland is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 3, 2026.