{"id":41530,"date":"2021-06-29T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-cabinet-offices-spending-on-cybersecurity-training-rises-by-500-in-a-year\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:45:10","slug":"uk-cabinet-offices-spending-on-cybersecurity-training-rises-by-500-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-cabinet-offices-spending-on-cybersecurity-training-rises-by-500-in-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Cabinet Office’s spending on cybersecurity training rises by 500% in a year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cabinet Office spaffed almost \u00a3300,000 on cybersecurity-related training for its staff in the last year \u2013 an eye-popping increase of almost 500 per cent on the year before.<\/p>\n

This is according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by political think tank Parliament Street<\/a>, which found the Cabinet Office lavished \u00a3274,142.85 on cybersecurity training for staff in the 2020\/21 financial year, with courses including “The Art of Hacking”, “Digital Forensics Fundamentals”, and “Ethical Hacking.”<\/p>\n

Compared to the \u00a347,018 forked out on similar courses in the previous year, that\u2019s a whopping 483 per cent increase in spending.<\/p>\n