What's that sound ?
It's snouts hitting troughs.
The UK is finally getting a national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), with the delayed launch of the organisation taking place today. CERT-UK, a key component of the government's £650m National Cyber Security Strategy, will co-ordinate responses to hacking and malware-based cyber attacks on a national level. The …
"Quite true. You can tell because they used the prefix "Cyber"
Possibly, but mainly by the twice yearly skiing trips and shopping at Waitrose/Boden.
Btw - there are probably very few UK national tech guys working there - the clue is the phrase 'recruitment issues' which indicates that the skiing Bodenites are recruiting through Tech Mahindra and such like.
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If one were to discover that the UK is basically corrupt and the plaything of an elitist few who should know better but don't, to be involved in the defence and maintenance of established systems would be tantamount to criminal action and one being a paid accomplice. All the good guys and gals would be on the other side of the great virtual divide and duty bound to do their best to ensure that things fail catastrophically and one imagines the stupid ones at Millbank and the clever ones at Vauxhall* are taking good care of all of that to be part of the solution rather than a renegade problem.
* As perceived to be the case and as shared in "Salting the Battlefied", the final part of the Worricker Trilogy ..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03zk528/Salting_the_Battlefield/
One cannot effectively defend unless one can stealthily attack in the cyber domain .... and that creates all sorts of enigmatic delights which challenge one with the greater intelligence of one's actions and possible future proaction's. IT be not for the faint hearted or unworldly wise or those who cannot handle vast riches as adeptly as a pauper handles poverty and deprivation.
the millions and I'll protect all of the UKs vital infrastructure against cyber attacks
Stage 1. hire a few dozen techies
Stage 2. send them to power stations etc
Stage 3. Install dedicated phone lines to grid control
Stage 4. Air gap the power stations control systems from the internet and any internal network
Stage 5. Fill in all the USB slots with glue.
That should cost 10 million in labour, and all the rest to my offshore account, at which point I'll resign and if it all goes wrong .. well I got my money so I'm ok
"Stage 1. hire a few dozen techies
Stage 2. send them to power stations etc
Stage 3. Install dedicated phone lines to grid control
Stage 4. Air gap the power stations control systems from the internet and any internal network
Stage 5. Fill in all the USB slots with glue"
Dont suppose it occured to you that most UK utilities companies have already done that?
The one I work for finished off protecting their power station systems a couple of years ago.