The Mail on Sunday

TALKING

-

of jobs, Ciaran Martin, the ex-boss of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, has taken Government advice to outof-work profession­als and got a job… back in cyber.

He’s joined Paladin Capital, an investment firm specialisi­ng in cyber companies, which he came across a few times in his old job. Luckily, GCHQ told Acoba it ‘can see no areas where he would have had access to privileged commercial informatio­n that could help Paladin’ and that what he does know about the UK’s cyber security approach is ‘very much a matter of public record’.

Similar observatio­ns about the lack of insider knowledge of Martin, who was NCSC chief executive until August and previously head of cyber at GCHQ, were made about his new appointmen­t with internet firm Garrison. It has contracts worth £320,000 with GCHQ and £100,000 with the Cabinet Office – something also not deemed a barrier to his taking a job there.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United Kingdom