UK military relaxes recruiting rules to attract cyber specialists Helen Warrell in London yesterday
https://www.ft.com/content/92a63e8b-36a3-477d-9bb4-3bcfb60cc7fa?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6 The UK armed forces have relaxed hiring rules to allow candidates from the private sector to go directly into senior military roles, in a drive to recruit more cyber specialists as warfare expands into the digital realm. General Sir Patrick Sanders, head of the UK’s Strategic Command, told the Financial Times that while he sometimes envied Israel’s conscription model — which allows defence chiefs to find the best cyber talent from a population-wide pool — the British military was finding new ways to attract tech experts. “I’m interested in people who may want to come in and spend a bit of time in defence, gain their credentials, their credibility and then move in and out,” said Sanders, who was speaking on the FT’s Rachman Review podcast. “And so that idea of a much more flexible approach to a career in defence, encouraging ‘lateral’ entry, and also looking at people with very different entry standards to what we traditionally expect.” Strategic Command’s new cyber career strategy will seek to attract more cyber specialists as reservists, as military “regulars” — including for the new National Cyber Force — and as civilian staff. One of the most significant changes is a new “lateral” entry regime, which allows cyber experts to leave industry and transfer directly into senior military ranks without the need to work their way up the hierarchy. From this summer, all existing members of the armed forces will be offered a cyber aptitude test: those found to have the relevant skills will be offered further training and a career path into a cyber job. Typical roles include electronic warfare specialists, who intercept enemy signals on the battlefield. < - > https://www.ft.com/content/92a63e8b-36a3-477d-9bb4-3bcfb60cc7fa?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6 -- Iw mailing list [email protected] http://sticklist.org/mailman/listinfo/iw_sticklist.org
