Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 22 January 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
1:00 pm
Mr. Mark Griffin:
If I interpret the Deputy correctly, I must inform her that we constantly engage with operators of essential services and digital service providers on the extent to which they are up to speed on their cybersecurity capacity and resilience. We have 67 operators of essential services designated in water, health, energy and transport. We are constantly in contact with them - the NCSC is. We constantly issue advisories in the event that an incident is discovered, including the one the Deputy mentioned about solar winds. Advisories issued to all the entities that engage with the NCSC. This is a very dynamic area and policy is updated on an ongoing basis. Finally on that, the network and information systems directive, which provides the legal basis for how we operate, has also been updated at EU level.
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