Professional Registration – what level is right for you?

Our Strategy Director Andy Jones looks at what you should take into consideration when applying for professional registration. Embarking on Professional Registration is a key milestone in your career and it is important to prepare your evidence and ensure it meets the required standards being sought.  Our advice is don’t aim higher than the level […]

The ethos behind our pilot studies

About The Cyber Scheme

Running a pilot study prior to the full-scale roll out of a new assessment, training course, or any measure of competency is an essential component in the development of The Cyber Scheme’s services. As a Licensed Body, we are trusted by the UK Cyber Security Council to run pilots which reflect verifiable outcomes and provide […]

Red Team/Attack Simulation Exercising

An article from James Mason, Enterprise Cyber Security, QinetiQ As the world’s oldest, formally dedicated, pen testing team and founders of the CHECK accreditation scheme, it was highly appropriate for QinetiQ to feature on the technical advisory panel with The Cyber Scheme, to discuss red teaming. More clear and robust guidelines in this area are […]

Cyber Advisor-tips

Learn from our Cyber Advisor assessor Sarah Knowles The role of the Cyber Advisor is to work with micro, small and medium sized businesses to improve their cyber resilience. Being a cyber advisor means that you have passed an assessment where you have demonstrated that you are able to provide sound, quality advice to a customer […]

Living the dream, in the red team at The Cyber Scheme…

A staff image depicting Paul Richards of The Cyber Scheme

By Paul Richards, Head of Education at The Cyber Scheme “Today I was invited to a meeting regarding our new Cyber Scheme Red Team Manager assessment. (CSRTM). Up until today I have had very little involvement; I’m not a red teamer, my specialism is in training and assessing security testers (previously known as pen testers). […]

Why did we develop a Red Team Manager assessment?

By Charles White, FCIIS, CEO of The Cyber Scheme An awful long time ago (thirty odd years) when I started out in the cyber security profession, I was fortunate enough to work alongside Professor Neil Barrett, a leading figure in the world of cyber and an expert witness to boot. At the time security testing […]

Learning Lessons: Sir Roly Keating, CEO, The British Library talks incident response

In October last year, the British Library became the victim of a major ransomware cyber-attack, the impact of which was deep and extensive. While physical access to the library wasn’t affected, online systems and services were massively disrupted, the website went down, and staff initially lost access to basic communication tools including email. Immediate action […]

Cyber Essentials DOES work!

During the first plenary of CYBERUK24 in May, Felicity Oswald OBE, CEO of NCSC, spoke about how Cyber Essentials certification is a major step in making organisations more resilient: “It reminds us that all businesses must look at cyber security as an integral part of their organisational risk management. This can be done in a number […]

Failure is an option…

An assessor’s guide to exam success… Paul Richards is Lead Assessor and Head of Education for The Cyber Scheme, and a subject matter expert in ethical hacking and security testing. During the last few months, he has seen over a thousand candidates sit our exams, both successfully and unsuccessfully. To help future candidates learn from […]

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