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    Teachers and lecturers

    Cyber Security

    Digital Resilience & Defence

    Everything for teaching or advising on Cyber Security careers in one place: the classroom pack, the career guide and, as employers add them, their articles, videos and resources. The career family has 8 areas of work.

    Classroom pack

    Games, interactive diagrams, a jargon translator, a curriculum map and teacher notes with the answers, every claim sourced.

    Career guide

    Every area of work, how people get in, pay and hiring, skills and where to find out more, built from the TechSkills Career Matrix with sources and dates shown.

    Hands-on routes in Cyber Security

    Some careers in this family are practical and on site rather than desk based. From the Career Matrix, with roles and pay in the career guide.

    • Area 03: Engineering & Architecture

      Operational Technology (OT) Security

      Protecting the industrial control systems that run power stations, water plants and factories, not just office networks.

      OT Security Engineer, ICS Security Analyst, Industrial Cyber Security Consultant

    From the industry

    Resources and articles from employers working in Cyber Security. Nothing is published until the TechSkills team has read it, and everything names the organisation that shared it.

    Resources shared by employers

    The first employer resources are on their way. If you work for an employer with a TechSkills portal account, you can share a resource from your portal and it will appear here once it has been reviewed.

    Articles and stories

    • Policy & Research

      What It Takes to Scale the Responsible Adoption of Agentic AI

      Drawing on a four-part 2026 workshop series, techUK sets out what it actually takes to move agentic AI beyond pilots - covering technical readiness, organisational ownership, workforce AI literacy and governance - alongside what it wants from government.

    • Policy & Research

      DSIT's AI Assurance Roadmap Takes Its Next Step

      techUK will lead the new Industry Advisory Group within the government's AI Assurance Consortium, working to build the UK's first agreed skills framework and career pathways for AI assurance - a fast-growing profession worth over £1 billion today and projected to reach around £19 billion by 2035.

    • Industry Insights

      Event Round-Up: Future Careers in Emerging Tech

      A round-up of techUK's Future Careers in Emerging Tech event, where panellists made the case that routes into AI, quantum, cybersecurity and semiconductors run through far more than traditional STEM degrees - and that soft skills matter just as much as technical ones.

    • University & Provider Spotlights

      Contribute to Our TechTogether 2026 Campaign

      techUK's month-long March diversity and inclusion campaign is built around four themes, from career pathways to equity by design, and is open to member contributions in blog, interview or short video form.

    • Industry Insights

      New Cyber Security Degree Apprenticeship Available

      The University of Gloucestershire’s BSc Cyber Security degree apprenticeship programme has now been accredited as Tech Industry Gold, with the unanimous support of all employers involved in the accreditation process.

    Over the coming months this is where employers will add their own articles, videos, lesson ideas and day-in-the-life stories for teachers. Nothing appears here until the TechSkills team has read it and published it, and every piece names the organisation that shared it.