Community groups across Scotland are invited to sign up to events during ‘CyberScotland’ Week 2025 with events running for all audiences to find out about cyber security on a number of different levels. In doing this, everyone will play a vital role in building a safer digital nation and learn more about cyber security. 

The theme for the week, “Can’t hack it?!?”, focuses on simple, everyday actions that can enhance cyber resilience for individuals and organisations alike.

We all face continuing threats from cyber criminals looking to exploit our dependency on the technology that underpins all aspects of modern life in our homes, workplaces and the services we use. We all need to build our awareness of the risks and become more cyber resilient.

In partnership with Siker, a leading UK based cyber security company with strong Scottish links, we are bringing you the Cyber Scotland Password Hashing Challenge. This challenge will show you the importance of strong passwords and free entry in to the prize draw for every password you crack. More information on the challenge can be found here and the challenge will run from the 24th to the 28th February.

Everyday actions to stay safe online

Taking the challenge or not, ‘CyberScotland’ Week encourages everyone to adopt simple practices recommended by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).

For individuals, these include:

For businesses and organisations, best practices include:

Please share this information with your community.