I ruoli senior della sicurezza informatica HSE non sono ancora stati ricoperti tre anni dopo il grave attacco ransomware
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/oireachtas/2024/05/08/senior-hse-cybersecurity-roles-still-not-filled-three-years-after-malware-attack/
di CyberIreland
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Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
You have to pay the going rate to get sufficiently talented cybersecurity experts but there’s probably some civil servants baulking at the idea of a computer guy under them getting paid a fair bit more than them.
Obviously not a HSE priority sure what could go wrong
That attack costing well over 100m euro and rising. I bet revenue have got top software *and* a firewall
The current starting salary for the position is about 5k more than I started on as a grad 6 years ago.
They are never going to fill the position with qualified people. The people who have the experience they’re looking for are on double what they are offering, and because of the scale, there’s no wiggle room.
They are currently advertising for experienced Security Analysts who will report to the GM of Cyber Security (so assume it is a fairly senior position?).
Starting salary is 48K.
Add in the painful recruitment process plus the impressions of a horribly dull, frustrating, bureacratic workplace and you can only imagine the quality of the candidates. Even if they offered 3 times that salary I wouldn’t give them a second thought.
Oh, and one of the conditions is that you must have passed at least 5 of your Leaving Cert exams and got an honour in three of them – WTF!!!!
This is an ongoing problem globally. The UK Dept of Finance advertised a head of cyber security role at £57k.
Civil servants and politicians don’t appreciate the salaries you need to pay to get proper experts on complicated topics.
They’re especially aggrieved that any of these positions are typically asking multiples of a Minister’s base salary, and just don’t want to accept that this is how things work now.
‘HSE paying peanuts surprised only monkeys applying’