{"id":2210,"date":"2017-04-19T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T10:13:00","slug":"cyber-skills-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/cyber-skills-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Skills Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week (17-21 April) is the Scottish Government&#8217;s Digital Skills Week. Today&#8217;s particular topic is cyber skills. The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/cyber-resilience\/\">cyber resilience blog<\/a> provides <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/cyber-resilience\/2017\/04\/18\/focus-cyber-security-careers\/\">more information<\/a> about Cyber Skills Day, with a focus on careers in this field. Also being highlighted today are <a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritychallenge.org.uk\/competitions\/cybergames\">Cyber Games<\/a>\u00a0for school pupils, organised by\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritychallenge.org.uk\/\">Cyber Security Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To get a foot on the rung of a career in cyber security, you&#8217;re going to need qualifications. Our N<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/74738.html\">PA in Cyber Security<\/a> has been hugely popular in schools, with nearly 500 pupils across Scotland currently undertaking it. I expect that number to increase significantly next session. Please <a href=\"mailto:emma.campos@sqa.org.uk\">contact Emma<\/a> if you want more information about this qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week (17-21 April) is the Scottish Government&#8217;s Digital Skills Week. Today&#8217;s particular topic is cyber skills. The cyber resilience blog provides more information about Cyber Skills Day, with a focus on careers in this field. Also being highlighted today are Cyber Games\u00a0for school pupils, organised by\u00a0 Cyber Security Challenge. To get a foot on the rung of a career in cyber security, you&#8217;re going to need qualifications. Our NPA in Cyber Security has been hugely popular in schools, with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}