Fancy a high-profile cybersecurity job? Here’s one for you.
Role: Cyber Security Manager.
Location: Buckingham Palace.
Yes, the Royal Household is promoting for a cybersecurity knowledgeable to head-up its crew digitally defending King Charles, his household, and their staff.
Reporting to the Director of Digital Services, the profitable candidate will discover a truthful quantity on their plate:
- Leading the maturity of the Cyber Risk Management technique and the Cyber safety framework supply in keeping with finest apply.
- Leading an in-house crew to take motion to cut back cyber threat and construct resilience in opposition to cyber-attacks.
- Working with the Enterprise Architecture crew to mature a safe by design tradition.
- Evaluating, reviewing, and advising on finest apply, drawing on exterior experience, together with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
- As material knowledgeable, constructing understanding and upskill the broader Digital Services Team and different key stakeholders
- Encouraging a cybersecurity tradition and consciousness so that each one staff perceive the function they play.
- Working intently with info safety colleagues to assist compliance.
Yeah yeah yeah, however let’s lower to the case – what’s the cash like?
Starting wage; £75,000
Hours of labor: 37.5 hours per week
Hmm.. that’s actually not essentially the most beneficiant wage on the planet for a job with that type of duty, particularly when you think about the price of dwelling in London. (I’m guessing King Charles isn’t provide his spare bed room)
Mind you, the Royal Family has lengthy had a status for not paying its lackeys the very best salaries.
But don’t fear, you’ll 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…
Other perks embody 20% off at our Royal Collection Trust Shops and complimentary admission tickets throughout all our places, together with many extra unique worker reductions.
Oh nice! I’ll be capable of 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 is little doubt that the Royal Family is a goal for hackers. Not solely have some members of the British press proven they’re ready to break the regulation to collect details about the Royals, however we’ve additionally seen current cyber assaults in opposition to the Royal Family’s web site.
To hear a dialogue of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault in opposition to the Royal Family’s web site, take heed to this episode of the “Smashing Security” podcast.