{"id":2052,"date":"2016-11-17T12:44:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T12:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:33:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:33:02","slug":"scottish-cyber-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/scottish-cyber-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Cyber Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the inaugural <em>Scottish Cyber Award<\/em> ceremony last night, which was held in the Waldorf Hotel in Edinburgh. SQA sponsored the Education Prize and I was there to award it.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192734162.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2053 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192734162-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Table 10 at the Scottish Cyber Award ceremony at the Waldorf Hotel in Edinburgh\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192734162-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192734162-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192734162-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192734162-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>It was an enjoyable evening, with prizes awarded to lots of Scottish companies and organisations for their outstanding achievements. The keynote speech was given by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Derek MacKay, who\u00a0emphasised the vital important of cyber security and cyber resilience for Scotland.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192443591.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2054 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192443591-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Presenter at the Scottish Cyber Award ceremony \" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192443591-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192443591-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192443591-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/IMG_20161116_192443591-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I was delighted to award the Education Prize to <strong>Scott Hunter<\/strong> of Kyle Academy. Scott led the development of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/cybersecurity\/\">National Progression Awards in Cyber Security<\/a> and has been delivering them since 2015. He has also promoted cyber security in many other ways, including his innovative <em>Cyber Badge<\/em> scheme. He thoroughly deserved the prize.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:natalie.mann@sqa.org.uk\">contact Natalie<\/a> if you want to know more about SQA&#8217;s Cyber awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the inaugural Scottish Cyber Award ceremony last night, which was held in the Waldorf Hotel in Edinburgh. SQA sponsored the Education Prize and I was there to award it. It was an enjoyable evening, with prizes awarded to lots of Scottish companies and organisations for their outstanding achievements. The keynote speech was given by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Derek MacKay, who\u00a0emphasised the vital important of cyber security and cyber resilience for Scotland. I was delighted to award&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3682,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}