JCSC News: Cyber Law consultation, upcoming events, and the Digital Jersey TechAwards

Introduction from Matt Palmer, JCSC Director

Dear reader,

After our first newsletter in a few months in January, you’ll notice we’re back to our regularly-scheduled programming! This is in large part thanks to our Communications and Engagement officer, Carla Jardim, who is also busy planning an exciting and informative series of events, from law consultations to Awareness Month 2024. Watch this space!

As I mentioned in the last newsletter, we now have our full team in place. The timing could not have been better, because the last month has been incredibly busy. As well as dealing with our usual work, we’re organising several events, and supporting our newly-appointed Ministers as they take on their new roles. I think it’s fair to say we’re putting our new team members through their paces.

A few weeks ago, we welcomed Deputy Moz Scott (Assistant Minister for Sustainable Economic Development), to our Operations Centre. She now has oversight of cyber, and has a real interest in what we are seeking to achieve for the Island.

As well as introducing her to the team and showing how we identify technology vulnerabilities and work with local organisations to resolve them, I was able update her on the progress and provisions in the draft Cyber Security (Jersey) Law.

Speaking of the Law, I am very pleased to say that the Government of Jersey will be consulting on the Law from next week. We’ll be supporting them by holding briefings to offer more context and background.

If you’re curious about what the draft Cyber Law contains and how it will affect you and your organisation, read on to find out details of when the briefings are happening.

As ever, please do feel free to share this newsletter (and our events) with anyone you think would find it useful.

Matt

Jersey Cyber Law: share your feedback

After months of work with colleagues across sectors and in Government, in March, you can share your views on on the draft Cyber Security (Jersey) Law.

If it is approved by the States Assembly later this year, the Law will establish JCSC as an independent organisation, and define our remit and function.

The consultation on draft Law will run between Monday 4 and Sunday 17 March.

You can take part by submitting your comments directly via the Government of Jersey website. (Please note, the consultation web page will be live from 4 March.)

You can also attend a briefing session, either in person at our office at 1 Seaton Place, or online via Microsoft Teams:

• Operators of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI): Wednesday 6 March, 12pm – 1.30pm

• Operators of Essential Services: Friday 8 March, 8am – 9am

• Members of the Public: Thursday 7 March, 5pm – 6.30pm, and Friday 8 March 12pm – 1.30pm.

Visit our Eventbrite page to reserve your place.

Upcoming events

International Women’s Day Lunch: Thursday 7 March

We’re inviting all women who work in cyber (and the people who support them) to join us for an early International Women’s Day Lunch on Thursday 7 March.

The theme for International Women's Day 2024 is Invest in women: Accelerate progress.

To celebrate, we’ve worked with Soteria Communications to invite three outstanding women in cyber to join this lunchtime session.

We’ll be joined by:

• Chihiro Sasaki, Deputy Chief Operations Officer at Nihon Cyber Defence

• Betsy Amy-Vogt, Security Analyst at JT Global

• Heather-Anne Hubbell, Chief Executive Officer at Phundex Limited

They’ll talk to us about their individual career paths to date, the practical and financial meaning of investing in women in cyber, and the steps we can take advocate for more investment.

This event is kindly supported by PlainSail, and is free of charge to attend. However, spaces are limited so make sure you reserve your place.

Mini Cyber and Data Conference: Wednesday 20 March

Join us and our colleagues at Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner (JOIC) for a half-day conference on data protection and cyber security.

While these two areas are closely linked, we often see data protection and cyber security colleagues working separately.

This half day conference aims to bring these groups together to discuss how cyber security and data protection interact, including how they are - or should be - regulated.

Sessions will include:

• a Q&A sessions with the Information Commissioner for Jersey (Paul Vane), and the Director of the Jersey Cyber Security Centre (Matt Palmer)

• an interactive workshop

• an optional networking session, sponsored by the Islands Data Governance Forum (IDGF)

Click below to book your place

Jersey Tech Awards shortlisting

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve been shortlisted for the Cyber Security category for the 6th Jersey Tech Awards.

We’ve been nominated for our partnership work with Soteria Communications and the Channel Islands Information Security Forum (CIISF) for our work on Cyber Security Awareness Month.

Having a month dedicated to Cyber Security Awareness month is an excellent way of focusing discussion on this issue, but it’s a huge undertaking to deliver these events. Together, we organised more than 20 events across the month for over 400 attendees.

You can now find videos of the conference talks and thoughts from attendees over on our youtube channel - if you use youtube you can also subscribe to be notified when we post something new.

A huge thanks to Soteria Communications and CIISF for their work - we’ll look forward to celebrating our nomination at the event, which will take place on Friday 26 April.

Tickets are still available for the event: you can book through Digital Jersey.

Recent news

Windows Microsoft 10 end of support

Microsoft Windows 10 is used by millions of businesses and individuals around the world, and all of them are going to be affected when support ends on 14 October 2025.

Over on LinkedIn, Senior Analyst James McLaren explained what the effect will be, and how you can prepare.

Jobs in Cyber

Senior Manager, IT and Operational Risk
RBC Wealth Management

This role would suit someone with a degree-level qualification and relevant qualifications in cybersecurity or risk and information systems control.

Senior Network Consultant
SystemLabs

This role would suit someone with experience with Cisco, Fortinet, and Aruba network devices and solid knowledge of cyber security and technical risk mitigation.

Find out more about careers in cyber security

Click to watch our series of short videos with local cyber security professionals to learn about the benefits of a cyber security career, and why cyber security is open to everyone regardless of personal characteristics or academic background:

Learning & Tools of the month

Microsoft Log Parser Studio

A GUI for Log Parser which makes searching gigabytes of logs more user-friendly with built in support for many log types. As well as a built-in query library, it also allows you write and save custom queries, which you can export as PowerShell scripts.

There are good resources online to help write your own queries as well as more information here.