The summer holidays are here, and it’s more important than ever for parents and carers to equip themselves with the knowledge and tools to ensure their child’s online safety. Without the daily structure of school, young people might be tempted …
What has The Cyber Trust Family Internet Safety Project got to do with getting more people involved with Cyber Security and online safety careers? Whilst the recent UK Online Safety Act 2023 sets out to protect children from the worst …
Dave Thomson, a Trustee, has written on LinkedIn recently (29/04/2024) that The Cyber Trust is about to embark on a pilot project to explore how household internet monitoring tools may help family members to stay safe online, as flagged on …
This year’s National Cyber Awards ceremony was huge – 500 at the dinner, hosted by Gordon Corera (BBC), and attended by the Minister of State at DSIT. For the first time there was involvement at No 10 level – some …
The ITU Child Online Protection (COP) Team launch their App called AskMe on 19 September 2023. Access the App here: https://www.itu.int/cop/askme/ This started as a collaborative venture between The Cyber Trust and the COP Team in November 2021, and we …
Recently I made a visit to see IT Schools Africa (ITSA) who are a Charity based in Cheltenham. They have collected over 115,000 computers and laptops which they wipe, refurbish and upgrade before sending out to their NGOs in Kenya, …
It was great to be a judge at the recent Elektra Awards 2022 hosted by Electronics Weekly, and to represent both The Cyber Trust and Cyber Security Challenge UK as a part of that. Plenty of good coverage on social …
The Cyber Trust is a beneficiary of The National Cyber Awards, alongside The Cyber Security Challenge UK Ltd, Help for Heroes, and the NSPCC. This year Dame Janet Trotter (Chair of The Board of Trustees) and Dr Robert Nowill (Trustee) …
COMX 2022 was held on 10 June at The University of Gloucestershire to showcase the innovative and technical talents of its Game Technologies students, enhancing their career prospects in the process https://www.glos.ac.uk/content/comx-2022-will-showcase-talents-of-game-technologies-students/ . This is the area from which several …
At the end of March 2022 the SpeakOut! team from The University of Gloucestershire and The Cyber Trust went to Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre, to create ideas for another storyline for our SpeakOut! App, on BLM. This …
Development of a new BLM Storyline for SpeakOut! Read more »