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Nato rges Military to Recruit White Hat Hacker Army to Boost Defenses
NATO is urging corporate and military entities to hire their own hackers, to help defend against the growing number of cyberattacks.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has called for the military and private industry to recruit more ethical hackers, as their skills can be an essential weapon in its ongoing anti-black hat war.
"In order to have a defense you need to have a much wider group of people with a much broader set of skills working for you than as in the old days when we were talking about the man from the ministry with a set identity," says NATO deputy assistant secretary general Jamie Shea.
The hacker community is currently an under-tapped source that could help temporarily plug the global cyberskills gap, adds a NATO spokesperson. Companies and governments must create an ethical disclosure culture making it financially advantageous for cyberprofessionals to responsibly report vulnerabilities, the spokesperson says.
Many analysts have warned that governments are not training enough people with cybersecurity skills, and a recent United Kingdom National Audit Office report said the skills gap would last 20 years.
However, the NATO spokesperson lauded the UK Cyber Strategy as a key step in the right direction. "The UK has recently launched a training and education initiative in schools and universities to address the skills gap," the spokesperson says.
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