A SCOTS enterprise help initiative, designed to spice up the adoption of cyber-secure Web of Issues (IoT) applied sciences amongst SMEs, has secured extra funding to achieve extra corporations from throughout a variety of sectors very important to the Scottish financial system.
IoT Safe – led by IoT specialists at CENSIS, Scotland’s innovation centre for sensing, imaging, and IoT applied sciences – affords cyber safety workshops and one-to-one consultations to SMEs and start-ups with an curiosity in adopting IoT applied sciences.
The programme goals to interact with companies from Scotland’s progress sectors together with aquaculture, maritime, agri-tech and manufacturing.
Round 40 corporations have benefited from the free initiative because it was launched in Spring 2020, with not less than 10 invited to participate within the subsequent section.
The scheme will run till March 2024 after securing a funding extension from the Scottish Authorities.
The programme is open to companies within the technique of creating IoT services or products, or trying to implement IoT units of their office.
CENSIS will work with every firm to determine their particular alternatives and challenges, in addition to present steering on the adoption of latest processes and advise on extra help, reminiscent of R&D grants.
Addressing upcoming adjustments to cyber safety regulation will even be a core aspect of the programme.
The lately launched Product Safety and Telecommunications Infrastructure Invoice features a regulatory framework on making good units safer in opposition to cyber-attacks.
Cade Wells, enterprise improvement director at CENSIS, mentioned: “We’re grateful to the Scottish Authorities for extending the IoT Safe programme’s funding and enabling us to proceed collaborating with our rising community of SMEs and start-ups.
“Supporting corporations with cyber safety and resilience stays certainly one of our high priorities, serving to them to beat the rising vary of threats offered by hackers.
“We hope to make additional progress with the programme by showcasing the advantages of integrating IoT applied sciences inside extra of the nation’s key sectors, whereas additionally extending our outreach to a extra various vary of companies.”
