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Ben Aung

@Drawerer

Security wally

London, England Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@sagegroupplc's security team is growing! We want to hear from you even if you don’t think you fit one of our adverts (skills or geographically). We look for curiosity, enthusiasm and people who love being in a team. Everything else flows from that. sage.com/en-gb/company/…
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@AlexGAThomas Fascinating indeed. Interested to understand the practicalities of how NSA and DNSA advice will flow from and between NSS, cab sec and No10
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Alex Thomas
Alex Thomas@AlexGAThomas·
Also means the agencies (and deputy NSAs) presumably have to report to the cabinet sec
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Alex Thomas
Alex Thomas@AlexGAThomas·
Fascinating appointment. The first time a special adviser has done the NSA job (David Frost was appointed but never took up the role). That’s a reasonable decision for the PM to make but has consequences for how the National Security Council works
George Parker@GeorgeWParker

NEW - Jonathan Powell, Blair's former chief of staff and architect of the Good Friday Agreement, back in No10 as Starmer's National Security Adviser. Big beefing up of the Downing St operation. Scoop with William Wallis ft.com/content/308792…

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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@leguape I recall being woken up in the middle of the night by the COBR duty team in circa 2017 to be told UK special forces whereabouts were being published on the web via Strava (I had no idea what this was at the time)
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@Paul_Reviews No not at all. That NCSC advisory role is one of many in a v large organisation, with little direct accountability, no people management and probably a relatively sedate daily tempo of friendly meetings. The Aldi job probably none of those things.
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Paul Moore - Security Consultant 
Paul Moore - Security Consultant @Paul_Reviews·
@Drawerer Doesn't that scare you? A Cyber Security leader at GCHQ is less stressed than an Aldi store manager? Good lord, if that's true, we're truly screwed.
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Paul Moore - Security Consultant 
Paul Moore - Security Consultant @Paul_Reviews·
Stressful job at NCSC, £42k Comparably easy job requiring no qualifications at Aldi, £50-65k It's truly farcical.
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@ChrisMasonBBC @hzeffman Chris, I see you’ve tried to explain yourself (also on the BBC News front page). Privately, I hope you reflected on what led to you being the vehicle for briefing which feels both vindictive and misogynistic, and hope you do a lot better next time
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@TamFinkelstein I can speak to the benefit of generalist skills as additive to professional capability (in my case technology/cyber), not least as it makes you more employable/deployable. I have also found the private sector to be the inverse of the CS in proportion of generalist vs specialist
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Tamara Finkelstein
Tamara Finkelstein@TamFinkelstein·
Really interested in views on my assertion that we are not well served any more by the idea of the civil service generalist, that it gets in the way of raising our professional capability and commitment to continuous professional development - so we deliver better for citizens
Heywood Quarterly@HeyQuarterly

In our latest article, Tamara Finkelstein, head of the Government’s policy profession asks whether we should - at last - call time on the ubiquitous civil service “generalist”. You can read more here👇 @TamFinkelstein @PolicyProfUK heywoodquarterly.com/the-end-of-the…

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Lucy Fisher
Lucy Fisher@LOS_Fisher·
EXC: Almost 100 intelligence officials have been forced out of their offices on Whitehall after losing a bitter turf war when crumbling concrete was found in the roof Scores of National Security Secretariat officials evacuated from fourth floor desks at 70 Whitehall due to RAAC Story from me & @elleshevakissin 👇 on.ft.com/3zYFQ3X
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@AlexGAThomas I can say with cast iron certainty that 18 year old ‘cyber defenders’ will be creating significantly more work than any defending they do
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Daniel Cuthbert
Daniel Cuthbert@dcuthbert·
Italian cars and bikes. Yup addictive as hell. I purchased this Colnago Master in 1992 and it hasn’t been ridden for 20+ years, so felt right to build her up again and change that. Suitable Campagnolo Super Record 11 too. No fancy wireless here
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@AlexGAThomas There’s quite a bit of rewriting history about Sue going on, seemingly by people who were nowhere near her or perhaps have an axe to grind. The quote also sounds like the last thing Jeremy would actually say
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@Sandbagger_01 Foreign nationals can hold DV, but most roles which require DV are reserved for British or dual nationals (agree the story doesn't make sense though)
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Dr. Dan Lomas
Dr. Dan Lomas@Sandbagger_01·
"For this role, he claims he was given developed vetting, the most advanced form of security clearance". ⁉️ Erm, nationality rules anyone? And, the individual may have done translation, yes. But the story seems based entirely on an individual saying stuff.
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@Dominic2306 Ministers are not security vetted or subject to STRAP (which isn’t a clearance). If you don’t know this then I wonder what else you don’t know.
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Daniel Cuthbert
Daniel Cuthbert@dcuthbert·
Reading tech docs on the @remarkablepaper is just heavenly. Ability to annotate, no shiny screen and distractions and battery life that is super impressive. Honestly, I’ve found my ultimate travel companion
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@Peston The officials version met regularly, the ministerial one almost never
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Robert Peston
Robert Peston@Peston·
The relevant subcommittee, that he says he never recalls attending, is called the sub-committee on "Threats, Hazards, Resilience and Contingencies"
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Robert Peston
Robert Peston@Peston·
Another bombshell from the Covid-19 Inquiry. Hancock confirms he did not attend any meeting of a sub-committee of the National Security Council that was responsible for pandemic planning.
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@cath_haddon @willperrin COBR has always been used in a variety of different ways. Cameron would have activated it in this situation, May wouldn’t, Johnson 🤷🏽‍♂️. COBR and NSC also not mutually exclusive to one another - one can tackle the immediate issues, the other the medium to long term
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Dr Catherine Haddon
Dr Catherine Haddon@cath_haddon·
@willperrin I guess not in the usual sense, but yes in as much as every foreign policy and military emergency can have the same rolling approach. The main reason for COBR in the contingency sense is if there’s a diplomatic or citizen evacuation angle.
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Dr Catherine Haddon
Dr Catherine Haddon@cath_haddon·
Why COBR? You have a National. Security. Council. Or did you just have a Nat Sec meeting in the cabinet office briefing room and decided to call it that? It’s just…. why would you convey this is a civil contingency problem?
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Alex Thomas
Alex Thomas@AlexGAThomas·
Great new report from @RhysClyne and @Sachin_Savur on the Home Office - lots of lessons, including that the Home Secretary is making a mistake by dropping some of the post-Windrush reforms
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
@Edeaulx @marxculture @shashj It doesn’t work that way, you overstate the sophistication of the process. Vetting officers generally see it as easier as candidates have had less opportunity to make mistakes (recreational drug use aside). The intelligence community is also full of people just out of university
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Ben Aung
Ben Aung@Drawerer·
Two things strike me about this: - brings home just how many people in the US system have TS clearances and access, an unmanageable number - the ability of someone to just retype classified docs and circumvent $millions of controls, I'm not sure how this risk is managed
Shane Harris@shaneharris

SCOOP: The man behind the massive leak of U.S. government secrets worked on a "military base," his friend says. An online group that received hundreds of classified documents included foreigners. washingtonpost.com/national-secur… By me and @samueloakford

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