Professor Kevin Hammond, Professor of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews, details here a new initiative he is leading, the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (‘SICSA’) Cyber Nexus, which will look to focus efforts by Scottish universities on cyber security and cyber resilience, in partnership with government and industry. Professor Hammond describes the various components of the SICSA Cyber Nexus, including the themed events and workshops being organised, and details the initiative’s aims. / read more

The UK Government’s public consultation on the European Directive on the Security of Network and Information Systems (the ‘NIS Directive’), which sought responses on its proposal to appoint multiple sector-specific competent authorities to regulate and audit essential services, closed on 30 September 2017. Meanwhile the coming into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (the ‘GDPR’) looms ever closer. William Richmond-Coggan, Partner at Pitmans LLP, assesses the potential crossover between these two pieces of legislation, and the problems businesses could face as a result. / read more