Otherwise. Your job in the British secret service MI6 will mainly give you square eyes, says correspondent Anne Saenen.

counterattack

Cyber ​​attacks and cyber espionage. Every country has to face it more and more, including Great Britain. And so MI6 CEO Richard Moore (no, he’s not a relative of 007 actor Roger Moore) thought it was time for a counterattack.

Moore sent a request via Twitter. ” MI6 looking for a new ‘Q’. If you want to serve your country in operational technology development, take a look. ”

Technological mastermind

MI6 is looking for someone who is very tech savvy. So the Secret Service is not looking for someone in a long white coat in a lab who shoots a bullet at a doll with a pen, like you know ‘Q’ from the James Bond movies.

MI6 is primarily looking for young talents with digital skills, says Anne Saenen. According to the RTL-Nieuws correspondent in Great Britain, the secret service has been hiring more young staff in recent years. “They publish riddles that require breaking the code or recruit ‘spies’ with graffiti campaigns on the street.”

Mentally heavy

The work of the new ‘Q’ will be mentally tough, thinks Anne Saenen. “Preventing attacks is not an easy task when you have to filter thousands of sources and messages.” That also falls under the cybernetic unit. ‘Q’ won’t do that alone, of course. He will briefly lead all digital teams within MI6. So don’t develop cool gadgets in a lab, but rather on a desk at MI6 headquarters in London.

We don’t know if the applications for the ‘Q’ function are flowing. MI6, of course, keeps it a secret. And it is boring; whoever becomes the real ‘Q’ has to keep that a secret as well. You are not allowed to talk about it with anyone.