I fighetti del Cyber

Staffing 
259. In order to meet the new demands, GCHQ will be increasing its headcount significantly. The number of staff working at GCHQ increased by approximately 4% (to 5,806) between March 2015 and March 2016; however, GCHQ told us that it expects this to increase by 14% over the next four years, bringing the total to 6,639 staff by March 2020. 260. Given that in 2015/16 GCHQ reported that it had a shortfall in recruitment of approximately 22% (recruiting 500 staff against a target of 640), we asked how this ambitious target would be achieved. GCHQ told us that the key obstacle to achieving its target in 2015/16 was a lack of security vetting capacity, which it was seeking to address: We have surged a lot of people into vetting… we had 51 [vetting officers] in July this year [2016]. We will have 110 by next summer to work through this… It is having an impact. We will clear the backlogs by the end of next year.274 261. Intense competition from the private sector for people with the skillsets GCHQ is seeking to recruit presents a further challenge. GCHQ acknowledges this as a significant issue, but is confident in the plans it has in place to address the situation. This was discussed in more detail earlier in this report, in Section 5 on Cyber Security. 262. We also questioned whether GCHQ would be able to absorb and leverage such a rapid increase in staff numbers. GCHQ told us: Apprentices and other staff brought in at [a] young age on various different schemes which we run… are at the heart of the mission, and some of our most difficult operations are on the Internet within a couple of years of joining. So actually we are getting value from people very early on. The challenge will be retaining them obviously and developing them and giving them a sort of rounded career.275 263. We also asked GCHQ about the extent to which it was re-employing former staff as contractors, as this appears to be on the increase throughout Government. GCHQ informed us that approximately 200 individuals who had previously been permanent employees were working for GCHQ via a contractor (as at January 2017). GCHQ has said that this is because of the scarcity of the specialist skills that GCHQ requires.

Ricorda la vicenda della fuga da Forte Braschi.
Se si costruisce una campagna di reclutamento sulla ricerca di talenti che solo le giovani generazioni sarebbero in grado di offrire e non si punta più sul senso dello stato, è logico che alla fine questi giovincelli si comportino nè più nè meno che come mercenari.