UK Cabinet Office's spending on cybersecurity training rises by 500% in a year The Cabinet Office spaffed almost £300,000 on cybersecurity-related training for its staff in the last year – an eye-popping increase of almost 500 per cent on the year before. This is according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by political think tank Parliament Street, which found the Cabinet Office lavished £274,142 …
Well the official social distancing advice varies from two metres to six feet, which is a six inch distance.
Either way is not a safe distance indoors. Aerosols can travel twenty seven feet indoors.
https://xkcd.com/2482/
The highest ever covid case total in Scotland this week, 3,285 people. A month ago Edinburgh had 53 cases per 100,000 - now it's 502 per 100,000.
Two thirds of new cases are young males indicating football / sports fans. People 'think it's all over' and have stopped wearing masks and social distancing. Edinburgh is full of English tourists staycationing, which will only get worse when the English school term ends in three weeks, The Scottish school term ended last week but most school rolls were already decimated due to social isolation caused by a wave of infections. Parents are back at work so thoughtlessly pass their sick kids onto vulnerable grandparents.
43% of UK covid deaths were fully vaccinated. A fully vaccinated 80 year old has the same risk as an unvaccinated 50 year old. My family have been visiting my parents repeatedly and at length without any precautions because they mistake vaccinations for invulnerability.
This is actually a very clear warning for Wembley increasing it's crowd size for the Euros semis and final matches, never mind letting in 3,500 untested UEFA officials.
Football linked to 2,000 Scottish Covid cases
The report said that 1,294 of the 1,991 total cases had reported travelling to London, including 397 who were actually at the match.
It is all very well spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on cybersecurity training, but who were the providers? As Cabinet Office is responsible for security issues in HMG, I would hope they knew what they were doing already.
And with Test and Trace spending thousands on consultants it would be nice to know it was spent on good quality training by NCSC approved bods, not some cabinet minister's barman's friends.
Maybe I'm too cynical.
Why surprise? If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear? Remember - that's what they keep telling us everytime they build a new camera scheme without our knowledge to monitor us....
In fact I think there should be CCTV fitted in every ministers office or even in all public servants offices, so that we can see them hard at work, earning the copious amounts of money we pay them.
You really think a minister earns a copious amount of money? It's a lot less than many of council chief executives and university chancellors. I'd argue that paying them closer to the amount they can earn in private industry when they leave the job, might make it a bit easier for them to keep their distance from those commercial entities while in office.
If you want to encourage participation by people who are driven by greed rather than by public service, yes, you could do that. It's not like a minister -- who gets paid extra on top of their MP's salary -- doesn't still earn upwards of six times the average salary. I know some of them still struggle to find enough spare cash to clean their moats or to buy some fancy wallpaper, but for some unfathomable reason I have difficulty sympathising with those tragic predicaments.
spending on cybersecurity training rises by 500% in a year.
The Masses would like to know. Is there a Preview Facility/Operational AI Conversion Unit with Master Pilots Pioneering AWEsome ProgramMING Products to Display/Pimp and Pump, as opposed to just Dump and Overwhelmingly Surprise?
You also have to question whether the attendees have the same shared goals.
If you go on the course determined to find out how best to avoid domestic accountability, for example, you're not going to pay to much attention to warnings about foreign state actors reading your personal cloud email account.
I'd love to see what this one's like. I'm betting "hilarious".
Also, if you're spending all this money getting courses made that are supposedly useful in cyber defence, why not just publish them so everybody can have a gander. After all, we're paying for them. And that sounds like a better strategy than most other things that I've read about from the govt on this.
Also, if you're spending all this money getting courses made that are supposedly useful in cyber defence, why not just publish them so everybody can have a gander. .... Howard Sway
The danger, Howard Sway, is that any publication be too easily recognised as errant vapourware.
And governments are in the vile throes of an enigmatic dilemma, with a prosecution charge of a wanton abuse and wilful misuse of public funds to deny is perfectly true hanging over their collective heads, for cyber defence cannot be bought and taught if one is not also well versed and expertly educated in successful cyber attack, and that has almighty attractions all of its own which have defence forces always seriously persistently permanently disadvantaged and reactionary, long after the main event which has moved on in another direction to somewhere else interesting and revolutionary to be addressed by government defences, and that course, The Art of Successful Cyber Attacking, is not one they are equipped and enabled to seed and feed publicly ..... although in the shady shadows of an engaging private sector, public cash and secret safe national security slush funding has always worked practically wondrous miracles in the past, and nothing much has happened to imagine that has changed in the present to impact negatively on future generous use of the utility.
* An ExtraTerrestrial Event/Otherworldly Assault
" if you're spending all this money getting courses made that are supposedly useful in cyber defence, why not just publish them so everybody can have a gander."
Because these courses are not created by UKGOV, they are commercial training courses that the government buy on a per-seat basis. Since they don't own the IP, they can't sell or give away the courses. A bit like you can't (legally) make copies of Hollywood DVDs[1] and sell them in the marketplace.
[1] Anachronistic reference.
The BBC obtain secret MoD documents left behind a bus stop in Kent. The Sun obtains pictures of Matt Hancock in a supposedly secure office building corridor. MI5 refuse to give the Home Office a list of staff showing who has had what training and refuses to let Home Office approved lawyers onsite.
If I was a suspicious person, I might think certain Civil Servants are less trustworthy than a room full of Pinocchio clones....
Posting as Anon since I can't think of a more suitable icon for what these backstabbing, self-important pencil-pushing oxygen thieves deserve... (Not for Hancock, he brought that on himself. But the sailors and spies and their families put at risk for cheap political point scoring).
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