cybernorthDynamo North East is creating a new, wider type of coordination across the region, one that involves all aspects of cyber resilience including those involved in commercial delivery, research and development, learning, regional resilience and wider users of technology.

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The cyber work stream will focus on five key areas:

  1. Strategic Direction: Working with organisations or groups that monitor and react to cyber related threats, regionally, nationally and globally.
  2. Awareness: Helping people who live work and play in the North East to benefit from an improved understanding of cyber related threats and opportunities.
  3. Business: Working with organisations involved in the delivery of cyber security services and products.
  4. Learning: Working with organizations that educate, train and develop individuals to meet the future needs of North East businesses.
  5. Funding: Securing sufficient funding to be able to continue the development of the cyber work stream.

The work will enable each of these components to work together in a coordinated way that promotes the North East as:

  • A region of high cyber awareness and infrastructural resilience.
  • A centre of excellence in the delivery of Cyber related services.
  • A centre of excellence in the delivery and development of high quality students and employees.
  • Noted for research and development in cyber.

Cyber security is major concern for everyone, whether you are running a business, working in an organization or are just trying to stay safe and protect your digital assets. Cyber in itself is merely the medium in which such crimes are committed and should be considered as part of a wider resilience agenda, in the same way that flood prevention, energy availability and home security are considered.

Cyber appears to be everyone’s issue yet at times it is no one’s. The cyber workstream is an attempt to coordinate all aspects of cyber resilience across the North East region, with a view to:

  • Collaborate with law enforcement and other agencies to support and align activities which meet UK and regional cyber security objectives.
  • Champion the North East’s cyber-security and resilience sector by identifying all involved in supply, development and coordination of related activities and developing a series of interventions that raise awareness of such issues.
  • Gain a thorough understanding of the region’s business cyber sector and develop initiatives, working in particular with the universities, that increase research and development resource and combine the strengths of business offering in a way that distinguishes the North East’s position, with the possible aim of creating a security operations centre within the region.
  • Build employment pathways that require cyber-security skills by working with schools, further education, higher education and businesses to meet future skills demands.
  • Secure additional funding that allows the objectives of the cluster to be met and be supported on an ongoing basis.

The following high level objectives have been agreed:

 

Area Objective
Strategic Direction Collaborate with law enforcement and other agencies to support and align activities which meet UK and regional cyber security objectives.
Awareness Champion the North East’s cyber-security and resilience sector by identifying all involved in supply, development and coordination of related activities and developing a series of interventions that raise awareness of such issues.
Business Gain a thorough understanding of the region’s business cyber sector and develop initiatives, working in particular with the universities, that increase research and development resource and combine the strengths of business offering in a way that distinguishes the North East’s position, with the possible aim of creating a security operations centre within the region.
Learning Build employment pathways that require cyber-security skills by working with schools, further education, higher education and businesses to meet future skills demands.
Funding Secure additional funding that allows the objectives of the cluster to be met and be supported on an ongoing basis.