Scotland used as ideal testing ground by cyber crime bosses

A security chief has praised Scotland’ s work incyb er resilience and revealed the country is often used as a training ground for potential issues.

Ciaran Martin, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), was speaking at the Cyberuk conference in Glasgow yesterday.

He said: “What I’m impressed about is the way Scottish society, public and private sector, mobilises itself ... frankly, sometimes we try some things out in Scotland because for some work it can be an optimal size of population – big enough, but not too big to do that sort of cross-sectoral kind of work.” More than 600 million websites were checked by security experts last year.