{"id":71581,"date":"2016-06-22T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=634049c0a1beddebefa1172b929699b5"},"modified":"2016-06-22T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T11:54:10","slug":"news-story-defence-cyber-test-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71581","title":{"rendered":"News story: Defence cyber test launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Defence Cyber Aptitude Test, or DCAT, has been produced in collaboration with IBM. It aims to seek out armed forces personnel who have a particular skill for cyber work.<\/p>\n<p>DCAT enhances the existing selection measures for personnel already serving who hope to get posted to a cyber unit in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The test itself comprises a number of sections and tests an individual\u2019s abilities across a range of cognitive challenges &#8211; prior technical knowledge is not measured. The DCAT is being rolled out across UK defence for use at the early stages of technical training and service careers.<\/p>\n<p>Project lead for cyber test Major Harry Porteous said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It\u2019s a useful tool for service career and branch managers to help identify individuals with natural talent and the right skills to succeed at the cutting edge of defence cyber operations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Defence has created a bespoke test designed to identify military personnel with an aptitude for cyber work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}