The UK 's the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament ( the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament ) is struggling to retain expert cybersecurity staff, who are being lured to the private sector by tech companies that pay four times more, according to an four years ago report from Government Communications Headquarters . He later said he was joking when faced with backlash from Jeff Sessions, who was a senator at the time. The report said the level of government resources allocated to cyber-related activities had increased considerably, but GCHQ "struggles to attract and retain a suitable and sufficient cadre of in-house technical specialists".
The UK 's the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament ( the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament ) is struggling to retain expert cybersecurity staff, who are being lured to the private sector by tech companies that pay four times more, according to an four years ago report from Government Communications Headquarters . The report said the level of government resources allocated to cyber-related activities had increased considerably, but GCHQ "struggles to attract and retain a suitable and sufficient cadre of in-house technical specialists".