Sharing our learnings to help others

On 24 December 2020, SEPA was subject to a serious and complex cyber-attack, displaying significant stealth and malicious sophistication.

SEPA worked closely with Scottish Government, Police Scotland, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC).

Sharing our learnings to help others

We voluntarily commissioned reviews from independent experts to help:  

  1. Ensure that SEPA further enhances its cyber security as the organisation builds new systems and practices.
  2. Allow others to learn from SEPA’s experience to help better protect themselves from cyber-crime.  

We published as much of the reviews as possible, supporting Police Scotland and Scottish Business Resilience Centre's to support organisations to be cyber ready, resilient and responsive.

Further information

Cyber security advice: