Recommendation 14

We asked the Cabinet Office why civil service recruitment processes remained a barrier. The Cabinet Office noted data suggesting it took on average nine months to recruit technology specialists. The Cabinet Office described this as not being good enough and said that it was trying different ways of shortening the time it takes to recruit. The Cabinet Office raised that it could also do much more to make government’s cyber security community more diverse. The Cabinet Office’s statistics showed that only around 20% of government’s cyber security community were women.28