Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 June 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Control of Humanitarian Assistance Funding
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade

9:30 am

Mr. Niall Burgess:

On cyber, we are acutely conscious of the risk. I consider cyber to be a significant operational risk across our operations. We take extensive measures to protect passport data. Our passport data are kept separate from the rest of the Department's data and they are encrypted. We take continuous actions to upgrade our measures to deal with cyber. We can see the activity. We are subject continuously to phishing attacks at the Department.

In addition to technological measures, we also take human measures. We do a lot of training and testing of our measures across the Department to increase awareness of the risks of these attacks but it is something we are very keenly aware of.

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