Keepnet Joins DIGIT Expo East 2025: Scotland’s Biggest Tech Showcase for Cyber Resilience

Keepnet is pleased to announce that it will be joining DIGIT Expo East 2025 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) on 27 November 2025, Scotland’s largest technology and digital innovation showcase.

This year, DIGIT Expo East is expected to host over 1,500 delegates, with 40 to 60 exhibitors and more than 50 speakers, across five content stages covering cybersecurity, AI, data, cloud, digital leadership and more.

For Keepnet, the event is a strategic opportunity to engage with CIOs, CISOs, security leaders and digital decision makers on one of the most critical questions in modern cybersecurity:

How can organisations systematically understand, measure and reduce human risk

What Is DIGIT Expo East

DIGIT Expo East (DIGIT Expo 2025) is Scotland’s largest annual technology showcase. It brings together IT, digital and security professionals from across sectors under one roof at the EICC in Edinburgh. The event combines:

• Live keynote talks from technology and business leaders
• Five parallel stages dedicated to cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, analytics, cloud services and digital leadership
• Scotland’s largest tech exhibition, with dozens of solution providers covering the end to end digital and cyber landscape

The 2025 agenda places a strong emphasis on security, resilience and human factors.

For example, Stage 4 includes:

• From Breach to Recovery: Inside the West Lothian Council Cyber Incident, an in depth, real world incident walkthrough.
• Sessions on the changing face of ransomware, post quantum readiness and building cyber resilience into 2026.

This mix of strategic talks, incident case studies and hands on vendor engagement makes DIGIT Expo East an important reference point in the UK and Scottish cyber calendar.

Why DIGIT Expo East Matters in 2025

The importance of DIGIT Expo East is not only about its size. It reflects the reality that the threat landscape, technology stack and workforce are all changing at the same time.

1. A Convergence of Pressures

Organisations today are managing several overlapping challenges:

• Evolving attack tactics, including human operated ransomware, multi channel social engineering, deepfake enabled fraud and MFA fatigue attacks
• Compressed response windows, where incidents develop in hours, while internal decision and approval processes often move much more slowly
• Increased scrutiny from regulators, boards and customers, who now see cyber incidents as issues of governance, continuity and trust, not only IT outages

DIGIT Expo East provides a structured environment to explore how these pressures intersect and what resilient operating models look like in practice.

2. Real World Cyber Resilience, Not Abstract Theory

By featuring real incident narratives such as the West Lothian Council cyber case, DIGIT Expo East goes beyond generic best practice and into operational detail:

• How an attack started and escalated
• Which controls were decisive, and which did not perform as expected
• How communication with staff, leadership and external stakeholders was handled
• What changed afterwards in policy, tooling, processes and behaviour

For security leaders, this kind of case based learning is invaluable for stress testing incident response plans, tabletop exercises and investment priorities.

3. A Cross Section of the Ecosystem

With more than 1,500 delegates and a large exhibitor presence, the event brings together:

• Public sector organisations, including local authorities and agencies
• Financial services, critical infrastructure and private enterprises
• Vendors and partners across security, data, AI, cloud and infrastructure

This creates a rare environment where CISOs and security leaders can:

• Benchmark their approaches with peers facing similar regulatory and operational constraints
• Validate or challenge their technology roadmaps and reference architectures
• Understand how different sectors are structuring teams, processes and governance around security and resilience

Why DIGIT Expo East Is Important for CISOs and Security Leaders

For CISOs and security leaders, time is limited and every event must justify its place in the calendar. DIGIT Expo East delivers value on several strategic levels.

A. Incident Intelligence and Strategic Foresight

Sessions focused on ransomware trends, cybercrime tactics and real incident stories give leaders:

• A clearer view of how adversaries are evolving in practice
• Concrete examples they can use in board, audit and risk committee discussions
• Insight into what effective cyber resilience looks like in comparable organisations

B. Practical Context for AI, Automation and Cloud

The agenda spans AI, machine learning, automation, cloud computing and digital transformation. For security leaders, this is an opportunity to address questions such as:

• How to secure AI enabled workflows without blocking innovation
• How to balance cloud agility with data protection, sovereignty and control
• How security, infrastructure and data teams can collaborate around shared risks and responsibilities

C. Focus on Leadership, Culture and Human Factors

Several sessions examine leadership, culture, sustainability, mental health and the future of work in an AI driven environment. For CISOs, these themes connect directly to:

• Building sustainable security cultures that reduce burnout and alert fatigue
• Communicating risk in a way that resonates with executives and non technical stakeholders
• Integrating human risk management into broader organisational resilience strategies, rather than treating it as a separate awareness project

Why Keepnet Is Joining DIGIT Expo East 2025

As an Extended Human Risk Management Platform, Keepnet’s mission is to help organisations understand, measure and reduce human risk across the entire social engineering and behavioural attack surface, not only email.

Keepnet is joining DIGIT Expo East 2025 in order to support three key priorities for security leaders.

1. Elevating Human Risk to a Strategic Metric

Traditional security awareness programmes often focus on:

• Annual or occasional e learning
• Periodic phishing simulations
• Completion rates and quiz scores as the main indicators of success

In 2025, this approach is no longer enough.

Keepnet promotes the idea that human risk should be treated as a first class security metric, by:

• Using multi channel simulations, including email, voice, SMS, QR codes and MFA fatigue patterns, to mirror real attacker behaviour
• Tailoring training and reinforcement to roles, departments, locations and specific risk profiles
• Providing dashboards that highlight trends in behaviour, improvement over time and areas of persistent vulnerability

At DIGIT Expo East, Keepnet will be available to discuss how organisations can move from basic awareness activity to data driven human risk management.

2. Turning Incidents Into Behavioural Change

The West Lothian Council case study and similar sessions demonstrate that cyber incidents are not only technical events. They are also human and organisational events.

Keepnet’s approach focuses on helping organisations:

• Embed micro learning and just in time training into daily workflows
• Use simulation results and incident data to refine policies, playbooks and guidance
• Build a culture where employees feel responsible, confident and supported in questioning and reporting suspicious activity

This helps ensure that lessons from incidents, whether internal or external, are not just written in reports, but are translated into lasting changes in behaviour.

3. Supporting an Ecosystem Approach to Resilience

Keepnet views human risk management as one layer of a broader resilience strategy that also includes:

• Strong identity, access and endpoint security
• Mature incident response planning and crisis communication
• Clear governance, reporting and regulatory alignment

By participating in DIGIT Expo East, Keepnet aims to:

• Collaborate with partners and peers on integrating human risk insights into SOC operations, SIEM, XDR and enterprise risk frameworks
• Share perspectives on how organisations can design human risk programmes that complement, rather than duplicate, their existing technology stack
• Listen to the specific operational and regulatory challenges faced by Scottish and UK organisations in both the public and private sectors

Conclusion: A Strategic Forum for the Next Phase of Cyber Resilience

DIGIT Expo East 2025 is more than a large technology event. It is a strategic forum where:

• Real incidents are analysed openly
• Technology, leadership and human behaviour are treated as interconnected drivers of resilience
• Organisations can recalibrate how they think about cyber risk and preparedness for 2026 and beyond

Keepnet is proud to join this year’s Expo and to contribute to the wider conversation on how to move from traditional awareness training to continuous, measurable human risk management.

Talk to Keepnet About Human Risk

If you would like to:

Review your current approach to human risk management

Explore how multi channel simulations and behavioural analytics can support your cyber resilience goals

Arrange a discussion with the Keepnet team before DIGIT Expo East, during the event at the EICC or as a follow up afterward

Our team will be happy to schedule time to talk about how Keepnet’s Human Risk Management Platform, Security Awareness Training and Phishing and Vishing Simulators can help your organisation build a stronger and more resilient security culture.