Security News > 2021 > June > UK Cabinet Office's spending on cybersecurity training rises by 500% in a year
The Cabinet Office spaffed almost £300,000 on cybersecurity-related training for its staff in the last year - an eye-popping increase of almost 500 per cent on the year before.
This is according to a Freedom of Information request by political think tank Parliament Street, which found the Cabinet Office lavished £274,142.
85 on cybersecurity training for staff in the 2020/21 financial year, with courses including "The Art of Hacking", "Digital Forensics Fundamentals", and "Ethical Hacking."
Compared to the £47,018 forked out on similar courses in the previous year, that's a whopping 483 per cent increase in spending.
In all, staff at the Cabinet Office took part in 428 separate cyber-training courses last year, compared to just 35 courses in the 12 months before.
No one from the Cabinet Office was available for comment at the time of writing.