Recommendation 15

Recruitment is fragmented across government, with some departments developing their own cyber recruitment and training programmes based on their needs.29 We queried how the Cabinet Office was working across Government, rather than letting each department train and recruit in its own way. The Cabinet Office told us that it was planning a new series of interventions. These included the Department for Work and Pension’s (DWP) cyber academy, which is reskilling civil servants who want a career in cyber. The Cabinet Office reassured us that DWP is running its cyber academy on behalf of the whole of government, so graduates would be deployed across government.30 Departments’ responsibilities for cyber resilience