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. Mark Griffin:
Picking up on the point about the numbers needed to be competent, I meet Mr. Browne and the team regularly and I am satisfied that the service provided by the National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC, even as we stand, is more than competent. We benchmark ourselves against similar-sized, high performing NCSCs within the European Union. We have approached staffing by building capacity, bringing in additional people and making sure they become embedded and fully integrated and understand the work they need to do. We then move on to the next tranche. It is a gradual, incremental increase in the overall cohort required in the NCSC and incident response teams. On quality, the computer security incident response team has international accreditation. We are very pleased-----
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