Fancy a high-profile cybersecurity job? Right here’s one for you.
Function: Cyber Safety Supervisor.
Location: Buckingham Palace.
Sure, the Royal Family is promoting for a cybersecurity knowledgeable to head-up its staff digitally defending King Charles, his household, and their staff.
Reporting to the Director of Digital Providers, the profitable candidate will discover a truthful quantity on their plate:
- Main the maturity of the Cyber Danger Administration technique and the Cyber safety framework supply in step with finest apply.
- Main an in-house staff to take motion to scale back cyber threat and construct resilience in opposition to cyber-attacks.
- Working with the Enterprise Structure staff to mature a safe by design tradition.
- Evaluating, reviewing, and advising on finest apply, drawing on exterior experience, together with the Nationwide Cyber Safety Centre (NCSC).
- As subject material knowledgeable, constructing understanding and upskill the broader Digital Providers Group and different key stakeholders
- Encouraging a cybersecurity tradition and consciousness so that each one workers perceive the function they play.
- Working intently with info safety colleagues to assist compliance.
Yeah yeah yeah, however let’s minimize to the case – what’s the cash like?
Beginning wage; £75,000
Hours of labor: 37.5 hours per week
Hmm.. that’s definitely not probably the most beneficiant wage on the planet for a task with that form of duty, particularly when you think about the price of residing in London. (I’m guessing King Charles isn’t provide his spare bed room)
Thoughts you, the Royal Household has lengthy had a status for not paying its lackeys the very best salaries.
However don’t fear, you should have the status of working for a person value an estimated £1.8 billion!
And if that’s sufficient to persuade you, simply take a look at some the perks of the job…
Different perks embody 20% off at our Royal Assortment Belief Retailers and complimentary admission tickets throughout all our places, together with many extra unique worker reductions.
Oh nice! I’ll have the ability to spend a few of my cash on a cut-price Buckingham Palace honey dipper, tea cosy, and a porcelain trowel! What a deal with!
There isn’t any doubt that the Royal Household is a goal for hackers. Not solely have some members of the British press proven they’re ready to break the regulation to assemble details about the Royals, however we’ve additionally seen current cyber assaults in opposition to the Royal Household’s web site.
To listen to a dialogue of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault in opposition to the Royal Household’s web site, hearken to this episode of the “Smashing Safety” podcast.
