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    IT Security/Cyber Security.

    With the new public sector IR35 stuff, there's likely to be a tulip-storm hitting before April.

    Dozens of GCHQ contractors will either decline to renew and try to jump to the private sector, or...just retire.

    HMRC is likely to lose a lot/most IT Security contractors on its books inside the next few weeks, as will The Home Office, MOD, FCO, Treasury, the last of the NHS Trusts with contractors, every Local Authority, County Councils, NATs, TfL...indeed an awful lot of the nations critical infrastructure is going to be lacking some key skilled resources - all at the same time.

    Those left will likely be ones whose skills are-in-doubt, and thus can't find a role in the private sector.

    I think a lot of public sector contractors will just take an extended break; see how things pan-out...perhaps gain some skills useful in the private sector, see what happens to the HMRC. For sure they'll be an awful lot of public sector contract roles - there's an estimate the civil service will need 30,000 staff for Brexit alone. People who can afford it will wait.

    When financial crime groups and perhaps Russia and the DPRK figure-out that the UK has pretty much dropped its guard, then poor old Philip Hammond is not going to be flavor-of-the-month/year/decade. I suspect the real humdinger outages/data losses/breaches will occur in August and then the government will go into complete headless-chicken mode. By then the remaining permies in some sites will have completely lost-the-plot and those with a clue will have gone on a well-deserved holiday having spent months trying to make up for the shortfall when the contractors left.

    In the meantime there's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) set to go live across Europe in May 2018. That will create loads-of-work in the private sector which will need an awful lot of contractors. And they'll be Brexit work too, though that isn't necessarily related to security work.

    It's going to be a really interesting year, and we really have HMRC to thank for it.

    #2
    A very interesting post from another thread. I thought it worth reposting here.
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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      #3
      Originally posted by cojak View Post
      A very interesting post from another thread. I thought it worth reposting here.
      Not 100% sure of that. I think it will just result in more things moving immediately to AWS or Microsoft Azure.

      After all Capital One and others already found AWS to be more secure than Capital One own current network and Azure will have similar stories.
      merely at clientco for the entertainment

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        #4
        Originally posted by eek View Post
        Not 100% sure of that. I think it will just result in more things moving immediately to AWS or Microsoft Azure.

        After all Capital One and others already found AWS to be more secure than Capital One own current network and Azure will have similar stories.
        I was thinking more of the IR35 aspect of the post.
        "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
        - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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          #5
          Originally posted by avalon111 View Post
          IT Security/Cyber Security.

          With the new public sector IR35 stuff, there's likely to be a tulip-storm hitting before April.

          Dozens of GCHQ contractors will either decline to renew and try to jump to the private sector, or...just retire.

          HMRC is likely to lose a lot/most IT Security contractors on its books inside the next few weeks, as will The Home Office, MOD, FCO, Treasury, the last of the NHS Trusts with contractors, every Local Authority, County Councils, NATs, TfL...indeed an awful lot of the nations critical infrastructure is going to be lacking some key skilled resources - all at the same time.

          Those left will likely be ones whose skills are-in-doubt, and thus can't find a role in the private sector.

          I think a lot of public sector contractors will just take an extended break; see how things pan-out...perhaps gain some skills useful in the private sector, see what happens to the HMRC. For sure they'll be an awful lot of public sector contract roles - there's an estimate the civil service will need 30,000 staff for Brexit alone. People who can afford it will wait.

          When financial crime groups and perhaps Russia and the DPRK figure-out that the UK has pretty much dropped its guard, then poor old Philip Hammond is not going to be flavor-of-the-month/year/decade. I suspect the real humdinger outages/data losses/breaches will occur in August and then the government will go into complete headless-chicken mode. By then the remaining permies in some sites will have completely lost-the-plot and those with a clue will have gone on a well-deserved holiday having spent months trying to make up for the shortfall when the contractors left.

          In the meantime there's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) set to go live across Europe in May 2018. That will create loads-of-work in the private sector which will need an awful lot of contractors. And they'll be Brexit work too, though that isn't necessarily related to security work.

          It's going to be a really interesting year, and we really have HMRC to thank for it.
          Was just thinking this very same thing, GCHQ, if this goes through hope a lot of them up and leave to private sector.

          One things for sure from all this, we can see the current government are no friends of contractors, come by election or general I know my vote will not be voting tory.
          Sorry to make this political.

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            #6
            GCHQ is not FOI, for obvious reasons.

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              #7
              Ah yes, of course. Good clarification, thanks James.
              "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
              - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                #8
                Originally posted by cojak View Post
                I was thinking more of the IR35 aspect of the post.
                The problem there is that he is making multiple jumps in logic each of which may or may not be valid. Then you have the flaws in logic GCHQ as James says won't be affected. Yes other departments may be but the rest is guess work...
                merely at clientco for the entertainment

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                  #9
                  Ah well, not so interesting then.

                  Move along, nothing to see here...

                  (I'll keep it here though as a pointer to misunderstandings of PS IR35 - I'm not about to delete my crap posts).
                  "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                  - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                    #10
                    While I understand that GCHQ isn't subject to FoI and that is the given definition, but it seems ludicrous that it won't be considered public sector.

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