I’m pretty sure that what’s left of British infrastructure only continues to exist thanks to the fact that the Chinese aren’t interested in crippling our country out of racist or ideological spite. We famously farm out computerised infrastructure to some of the least competent, most unsuitable vendors. Data secruity for institutions here is a joke. We’ve had multiple governments seriously propose banning encryption and almost the entirity of our political class is tech illiterate and our military structure is primarily a bizarre aristocracy that get their appointments via herditary favour.

And that’s without even getting into what the government offers in terms of pay and benefits to its cybersecurity experts. I’m keeping it vague obviously, but I once met someone via an odd work thing who interviewed for a classified ‘active’ cybersecurity role and was offered a salary that was ‘less than they made as dev at a mobile games studio almost a decade before’.