Public Sector Cyber Security Scotland 2025

Cyber risks are greater than ever, highlighting the importance of implementing security into digital public services. Our speakers will delve into the importance of cyber-resilience and update on the progress made across Scotland’s public and third sectors.

Cybersecurity is a people problem dressed up as a technology problem. What practical action can you and your team take today? Join Tanium’s Senior Security Advisor, Dan Jones, as he shares knowledge, skills and experience from a long and distinguished career in the UK Armed Forces to help you fight back.

Is your organisation prepared for AI-driven attacks, insider threats, and the hidden risks of cloud adoption? This session offers practical insights into building cyber resilience for Scotland’s public sector. Explore how a data-centric, identity-first approach—combined with automation and DSPM—can protect sensitive data, reduce workloads, and help your team stay ahead of emerging threats. Gain actionable strategies to strengthen your security posture and lead your organisation into 2025 with confidence.

Join Netskope for a 30-minute masterclass on creating clear and repeatable governance frameworks to help public sector organisations manage data safely and responsibly.. wherever it flows.

With AI and GenAI identified as critical to the UK’s future with the announcement of a new UK Government AI plan mid January, this session will address key challenges posed by the rapid growth of SaaS, cloud, and AI. It will provide practical ways to respond, including:

• Proactive risk mitigation and strategies for data protection across cloud, SaaS, and AI.
• A blueprint and key tools to promote responsible SaaS and GenAI usage.
• Real-time user coaching and other methods to build better data citizens and strengthen your security posture.

Cybersecurity is a people problem dressed up as a technology problem. What practical action can you and your team take today? Join Tanium’s Senior Security Advisor, Dan Jones, as he shares knowledge, skills and experience from a long and distinguished career in the UK Armed Forces to help you fight back.

Is your organisation prepared for AI-driven attacks, insider threats, and the hidden risks of cloud adoption? This session offers practical insights into building cyber resilience for Scotland’s public sector. Explore how a data-centric, identity-first approach—combined with automation and DSPM—can protect sensitive data, reduce workloads, and help your team stay ahead of emerging threats. Gain actionable strategies to strengthen your security posture and lead your organisation into 2025 with confidence.

Join Netskope for a 30-minute masterclass on creating clear and repeatable governance frameworks to help public sector organisations manage data safely and responsibly.. wherever it flows.

With AI and GenAI identified as critical to the UK’s future with the announcement of a new UK Government AI plan mid January, this session will address key challenges posed by the rapid growth of SaaS, cloud, and AI. It will provide practical ways to respond, including:

• Proactive risk mitigation and strategies for data protection across cloud, SaaS, and AI.
• A blueprint and key tools to promote responsible SaaS and GenAI usage.
• Real-time user coaching and other methods to build better data citizens and strengthen your security posture.

Zero trust is a well-defined concept (NIST SP 800-207), and there are in excess of ten different frameworks and maturity models which claim at some level to implement the concept. Yet when you speak to most customers, zero trust has become a "catch all" for security hygiene programs which really aren't going to achieve the outcome which the creators of zero trust envisaged. Gigamon has been involved in zero trust initiatives going back to some of the earliest US government pilots, and in this talk, Security CTO Ian Farquhar will talk about the five "gotchas" for doing zero trust in a way that will make your organisation resilient and significantly reduce risk.

Artificial Intelligence can provide invaluable tools to help organisations improve their cyber security. However, it does also enable cybercriminals to carry out more sophisticated attacks, making organisations increasingly vulnerable. Panellists will discuss the opportunities and threats of artificial intelligence.

While organisations have security measures such as firewalls in place to protect from outside attacks, threats can also originate from within. Our panellists will discuss how to raise awareness of the various types of insider threats, what some of the preventative measures are, and how to respond.

Many public sector organisations lack resources to tackle evolving cyber threats, according to exclusive polling by Holyrood magazine.

Learn how to address skills gaps and create an effective incident response plan to help your organisation deal with ransomware attacks, data breaches and other cyber threats.

Hear about the latest developments in tackling cybercrime and the importance of cooperation to protect our people and economy.