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.