With Cyber Security Awareness Month upon us, we’re pleased to share the programme for this month. This year, we’re focusing on providing cyber security events and advice for three main audiences:

• individuals who want to stay safer online

• small businesses and charities looking to protect their organisation

• organisations classed as Operators of Essential Services (OES) under the Cyber Security (Jersey) Law 2026

To coincide with the month, we’re also re-opening Cyber Health Check for up to 15 organisations. If you didn’t benefit from a Cyber Health Check last year when we ran the pilot, don’t miss out. You can find out more below.

As ever, we’re very grateful to all the partner organisations who work with us to provide valuable expertise throughout the month. Thank you to Soteria Communications, Parity Technologies, Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner, and the Channel Islands Information Security Forum.

I hope you can join us for at least one of these events. Or, if you have suggestions for future events, you can always email us: [email protected].

Until next time,

October events

For individuals

• Three FREE steps to better cyber security: Tuesday 13 and Thursday 29 October

• Cyber Advice Drop-in sessions: throughout October

For businesses and charities

• How Cyber Essentials can help protect your business: Friday 9 and Thursday 22 October

• Cyber security tabletop exercise (Jersey only): Monday 19 October

• Cyber Simulation for all organisations (in partnership with Soteria Communications, Guernsey only): Wednesday 14 October

• Cyber Simulation for financial services (in partnership with Soteria Communications, Guernsey only): Wednesday 14 October

• Cyber Simulation for providers of Critical National Infrastructure (in partnership with Soteria Communications, Guernsey only): Wednesday 28 October*

For Operators of Essential Services (Jersey only)

• Cyber Security Law briefings: Monday 5 and Tuesday 20 October

• Countdown to the Cyber Security Law: Monday 2 November

Partnership events

• Ready or Not? When Cyber Strikes and Personal Data is Breached (Jersey only, hosted by JOIC): Friday 2 October

• How cyber criminals really target your business (Guernsey only, hosted by Parity Technologies): Thursday 8 October

• Channel Islands Cyber Security Conference (in partnership with CIISF): Friday 16 October

All JCSC sessions are free to attend and available to book via Eventbrite.

(*To book a place on the Cyber Simulation Event for providers of Critical National Infrastructure, please email [email protected])

Take a free Cyber Health Check

After an initial pilot last year, we’re once again offering Cyber Health Checks for local organisations, with a focus on Operators of Essential Services (OES), small businesses and charities.

We developed Cyber Health Check as a free service to support smaller organisations who want to improve their cyber security, but who may not have an external IT provider, or are in the early stages of their cyber security journey.

It can act as a standalone indicator of your cyber security status, and act as a first step towards achieving Cyber Essentials accreditation.

When you take a Cyber Health Check, you receive:

1. A plain English assessment about how you handle cyber security, with key terms explained

2. A 20 page report with tailored advice and guidance

3. A meeting with one of our team to discuss your results

4. A Cyber Health Check rating that rates your current cyber security status

To find out more about Cyber Health Check, including terms and conditions, tap the button below.