Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 December 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund
9:00 am
Mr. Richard Browne:
In most cases, the targets were substantially exceeded. This was done in 2015, four years into the life of the NCSC. At that point, as far as we were concerned, we had achieved enough expertise to make a national strategy. Very quickly after the 2015 piece, we had a series of very serious incidents, including WannaCry and NotPetya in 2017, which fundamentally changed the NCSC's and the global understanding of the cybersecurity sector. We also had the NIS directive, which we signed into law in 2016.
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