Our Wonderful Brain … and a Taste of Cyber

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What makes our world great, is that we are all so different. We make friends with those we like, and on the things we like about them — the way they think and act. And we fall in love with those people who we adore. We are all different, and at the core of this is the way our brains work. Every single firing of neurons in our brain brings something totally unique to our world.

And so next week, in our SOCLAB lab, we start a new journey for us, and its is one we deeply believe in. Our course is focused on neuro-atypical/ autistic participants, and aims to provide a “Taste of Cyber”, and, hopefully, achieve these goals within Scotland:

  • Increase people’s cyber resilience through awareness raising and engagement
  • Explicitly embed cyber resilience throughout our education and lifelong learning system
  • Develop the cyber security workforce and profession to ensure that skills supply meets demand and that skilled individuals can find rewarding employment in Scotland.

But the opportunity is there to provide the spark that the shows someone the potential of this amazing new digital world that we are creating, as cybersecurity is helping building a world of opportunity, for lives of citizens, and also to create new economic business models. It brings new skills and also many…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.