Haydn Rees

Eindhoven

Techncial Analyst

So let me get this right, the BRC, FSB, Intellect, Tif, and CBI want the government to stump up money. Someone wants government money to train the entire population to be e-crime resistent. The gambling industry wants the police to catch up. SOCA has lost contact with industry.

a) Who will do the work?
b) Who will pay the bill?
c) Who will benefit?

Unless your answers are more specific than;
a) Someone else
b) me
c) Govenrment
you will get precisely nowhere.

Will someone please shift the goalposts so these interests form a feedback loop?

Government sees online-security as a bottomless pit. Industry needs this badly, but doesn't like paying into a central trough, and sees government as having bottomless pockets. The police are not the ideal organisation for the geek-work, but might well be the executive "teeth-arm". The work is immensely valuable, but not cheap, and can't be off-shored, because it would require everyone involved to be at least SC cleared.

Can anyone here say "Private Sector Whitehat Security Industry"?