Countering the cyber threat

Cyber security represents an ever-growing threat to governments, corporations and individuals, and is one of the fastest expanding areas of the defence sector. As a result, cyber offers an increasing number of job opportunities and has become a highly attractive career path for young engineers, particularly those that enjoy problem solving and fast-paced environments.

While the average experience with cyber threats may be limited to email hacks and computer viruses – the type of things we see in news headlines - there is of course a less visible information battle being fought behind the scenes, as governments seek to protect highly sensitive data from adversaries.

“L3Harris primarily focuses on the latter, the very well-funded, highly technically advanced threat actors,” Alastair Boulton, software engineering manager at L3Harris in Tewkesbury, told The Engineer.

“We design, build and support devices that protect data at the very highest level of classification for UK government entities such as the Ministry of Defence and police, in addition to friendly overseas governments.”