Publication - Progress report

Taking Stock: report on progress towards a cyber resilient Scotland

Published: 27 October 2023
Directorate: Justice Directorate
Topic: Building, planning and design, Building a new Scotland, Communities and third sector, +3 more … Education, Public sector, Work and skills
ISBN: 9781835214817

Our vision is for Scotland to be a cyber resilient nation. This report reviews strategic activities since 2015 to improve the cyber resilience of Scotland’s citizens and our public, private and third sectors, while also setting out priorities for the future.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 Home Office, Understanding the costs of cyber crime (2018)

2 Scottish Government, Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2022-2023 (2023)

3 UK Government, Press release: UK cracks down on ransomware actors (2023)

4 Palo Alto, Unit 42, Ransomware Threat Report 2022 (2022)

5 Crowdstrike, Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) Explained (2023)

6 Palo Alto, Unit 42, Ransomware Threat Report 2022 (2022)

7 These numbers were calculated by averaging the percentage response across several individual survey questions.

8 An organisation which certifies to CE+ receives both a CE and a CE+ certificate. A breakdown between public and private sector bodies is not available, but the majority of these organisations are private sector.

9 Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2022 (2022)

10 Scottish Government, Businesses in Scotland: 2022 (2022)

11 UK Government, Cyber security sectoral analysis 2023 (2023)

12 UK Government, Cyber security skills in the UK labour market 2023 (2023)

13 UK Government, Cyber security skills in the UK labour market 2022 (2022)

14 UK Government, Cyber security skills in the UK labour market 2023 (2023)

15 UK Government, Cyber security skills in the UK labour market 2022 (2022)

16 ScotlandIS website, Diversity and Inclusion

17 Digital World website, Become a Digital Human