Jobs including sensitive roles in security service being advertised with option of remote working
Who works from home? Spies like us! Jobs including sensitive roles with the security service are being advertised with the option of remote working
Dozens of jobs are still listed as involving partially or totally working from home These include sensitive roles with intelligence and security organisation GCHQOne expert has warned WFH for these poses an ‘enormous’ risk to the countryProfessor Anthony Glees said it would be easy to hack into people’s broadband
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The civil service jobs website is still advertising 64 vacancies involving partial or total working from home, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The 64 remote roles include sensitive positions with GCHQ, the Government’s intelligence and security organisation, and with counter-terrorism at the Home Office.
A security expert warned of the ‘absolutely enormous’ risks that could be posed by civil servants in these areas working from home, especially at a time of ‘grave international danger’.
Multiple civil service jobs, including some with sensitive positions with GCHQ, have been advertised as working from home (file photo)
The roles advertised include a counter-terrorism insight adviser and the deputy head of the economy and society resilience team at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
The latter role would involve working ‘on the front line of protecting the country from cyber-attacks’, according to the advertisement.
Professor Anthony Glees, a security and intelligence expert at the University of Buckingham, said it would be ‘extremely easy’ to hack into a homeworker’s broadband line, because domestic wi-fi connections don’t have the same security protection as those in offices.
He added: ‘There are some things that you simply cannot do from home and I would say working for any intelligence organisation is one of them.
Professor Anthony Glees, a security and intelligence expert at the University of Buckingham, has warned ‘absolutely enormous’ risks that could be posed by civil servants in intelligence roles working from home
‘In general, Russian intelligence would be very interested in anybody working from home who worked in the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office, the Ministry of Defence, or the Home Office.
‘The worst thing that could happen, at the current moment, is that our military security secrets could be revealed, including precisely what we’re giving to Ukraine.
‘Those are the sorts of things that you could get access to if people were working from home because you don’t have the same security that you have in the office.’
Professor Glees added: ‘Secret discussions must be face-to-face discussions.’
