Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed)
Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
The NCSC has no mission to carry out offensive counterstrikes. That is not part of its function. It is there to provide advice, research, risk assessments and incident response. It is not going to hack the hackers back, if that is what the Deputy is asking. That would not come under my remit.
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