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NOV26
EdinburghCSC Gathering
● Upcoming Meetup

Cyber Scotland Connect: Edinburgh Meetup at CodeBase

Thu, 26 Nov 2026(17:30 – 20:30 GMT)
CodeBase Edinburgh, 37a Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2EL
Speakers:
  • • Gary Hunter— "The Path to an Agentic SoC"
  • • Joshua Adegoke— "Reading Malware Config Off the Blockchain (NullReceiver Malware)"
  • • Rory McCune— "Surviving 2026: A Security Practitioner's Field Guide to LLMs and Agents"
  • • Caleb Eghan— "Break the Bank: Welcome to the Other Side of the Login Screen"
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NOV26
Scotland-widePartner: Cyber and Fraud Centre ScotlandPublic SectorStudent/Academic
● Upcoming Meetup

Intro to Cyber Security

Thu, 26 Nov 2026
Scotland
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JUN17
VirtualCSC Gathering
Archived

Cyber Scotland Connect: Virtual Event for June

Wed, 17 Jun 2026(18:00 – 20:30 BST)
Online (virtual)
Speakers:
  • • Andrew Gravett— "OWASP Threat Atlas Overview & Demo"
  • • Rory McCune— "What LLMs Do, and Don't, Know About Securing Kubernetes"
  • • John Sotiropoulos— "Securing Agentic AI at the Speed of Change"
🌐 Online
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OCT8
EdinburghCSC Gathering
Archived

Cyber Scotland Connect: Leith (Edinburgh) Meetup

Wed, 8 Oct 2025(18:00 – 21:00 BST)
Season Quayside, 72 Commercial St, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6LX
Speakers:
  • • Meletius Igbokwe— "The AI Kill Switch: Building Failsafes for Smart Cities Under Cyber Siege"
  • • Rory McCune— "So you've deployed Kubernetes Everywhere, now what?"
  • • Sergey Sergyenko— "Full-Cycle LLM Development for Privacy-Critical Domains Using CPU & Open Tools"
  • • Jacob Duane— "Phishing, Spoofing, and Trusted Communications in 2025"
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OCT19
VirtualCSC Gathering
Archived

Lessons from Working in Cyber During the Pandemic

Tue, 19 Oct 2021(18:30 – 20:30 BST)
Virtual Stream
Speakers:
  • • Scott McGready— "Remote Culture & Social Isolation in Security"
  • • Kevin Gray— "Defending Healthcare During a Pandemic"
  • • Waqas Ahmed— "Architecting for Distributed Teams"
  • • Rich Macfarlane— "Educating & Training Cyber Students Remotely"
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FEB24
VirtualCSC Gathering
Archived

Cyber War Stories: Challenges & Triumphs

Wed, 24 Feb 2021(18:30 – 20:30 GMT)
Virtual Stream
Speakers:
  • • Holly Grace Williams— "Tales from the Offensive Frontline"
  • • Dave McK— "Incident Response Under Extreme Pressure"
  • • Federico Charosky— "Navigating Enterprise Ransomware Incidents"
  • • Sarah Clarke— "Ethical Dilemmas in Incident Response"
🌐 Online
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OCT7
VirtualCSC Gathering
Archived

CSC Volume Eight: Breaking Into Cyber

Wed, 7 Oct 2020(18:30 – 20:30 BST)
Virtual Stream
Speakers:
  • • Magda de Jager— "Transitioning into Security Operations"
  • • Angus Skinner— "Self-Directed Cyber Skills Acquisition"
  • • Federico Charosky— "What Hiring Managers Actually Look For"
  • • Sarah Clarke— "Governance, Risk & Human-Centred Security"
🌐 Online
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JUL30
VirtualCSC Gathering
Archived

Cyber Scotland Confessions (Volume One)

Thu, 30 Jul 2020(18:30 – 20:30 BST)
Virtual Stream
Speakers:
  • • Javvad Malik— "Uncomfortable Infosec Truths"
  • • Gary Hunter— "Lessons from the SOC Trenches"
  • • Richard Grey— "Identity & Access Misadventures"
  • • Sean Wright— "Software Security Confessions"
  • • Kevin Gray— "Healthcare Resilience Lessons"
  • • Jai Aenugu— "Startup Security Realities"
🌐 Online
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DEC4
EdinburghCSC Gathering
Archived

CSC Volume Five: Youth in Tech & Rapid Incident Response

Wed, 4 Dec 2019(18:00 – 21:00 GMT)
Skyscanner, Quartermile One, 15 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9EN
Speakers:
  • • Callum Butler— "Offensive Security in the Wild"
  • • Gerry Magennis— "Offensive Security in the Wild"
  • • Tia Hopkins— "Navigating Cyber Career Pathways"
  • • Toni Scullion— "Championing the Next Generation of Girls in Cyber"
  • • The Turing's Testers— "Championing the Next Generation of Girls in Cyber"
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