The government has announced it will recruit hundreds of security experts as “cyber reservists” to help defend Britain and attack others in the online realm.
The Joint Cyber Reserve was announced by defence secretary Philip Hammond yesterday, saying they would work alongside Ministry of Defence and GCHQ forces.
The Reserve was announced in December last year, alongside a National CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team).
Recruiting will kick off next month. The MoD is keen to employ those leaving the armed forces, former and current reservists, as well as those with no military experience.
Hammond was keen to point out the UK is putting together strong offensive cyber squadrons: “In response to the growing cyber threat, we are developing a full-spectrum military cyber capability, including a strike capability, to enhance the UK’s range of military capabilities,” Hammond said.
“Increasingly, our defence budget is being invested in high-end capabilities such as cyber and intelligence and surveillance assets to ensure we can keep the country safe.”
Some have reservations about reserves, asking why the government isn’t spending money bolstering its permanent teams. Yet the MoD has been keen on fostering collaboration between public and private sector bodies on cyber issues.
According to Adrian Culley, global technical consultant at Damballa, the reserves should help further that strand of the government’s security strategy.
“The reserve encourages cross-fertilisation of skills between industry and the military. This blend of reservist and full time members helps maintain cutting edge ability,” Culley told TechWeekEurope.
“This is the best way of harnessing such skills.”
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On Guard! Not from a certain Country or from 3 Religions that will be at war once again and that brought disgrace to the name of God for the past 3,000 years. Instead stay on guard and in front of a group of individuals that with a simple gesture and a button, playing cyber warfare, could make entire populations disappear from Earth. All that is happening is the prelude to the next big surprise. Since George H. Bush was CIA director, the US secret State agencies had played a double roleto get to today when every person is constantly monitored by NSA and other agencies not to report information to the US Government but to feed with all data the embryo of a new superpower. In 1988 the ex CIA director was elected US President and allowed his own son, Neil Bush, to get away with the largest robbery of its time, the “Savings and Loans scandal”. After a few years, his other son became US president, plotted the most infamous attack on US soil, 9/11, and consolidated for 8 years the self interest of one family above all. At the present time, a group of Zionists, like a hidden parallel government, with George Bush still today at the head of secret services in the US, UK and Israel, is the destabilizing force behind most terror events and with classified information at disposal and a private army is plotting what now would seem unthinkable to many. The spokesman for this group in the US Congress is John Mc Cain who reports the given orders weighing on the US administration. A War of Religion and chaos everywhere have been plotted so that desperate people will soon invoke a New World Order without even knowing what that is. Not the protests or violence in the streets could ever oppose such threat to the whole Humankind configured in a Plan relying on its long tentacles and the short memory of the people. TV, newspapers and other media will do the rest to confuse what should be already crystal clear
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