Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Cybersecurity and Hybrid Threats Following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Discussion
Dr. Richard Browne:
Not in Ireland. I am sorry, I meant in Europe generally. Four of those were wipers. These were relatively straightforward pieces of malware that destroy data. These were found and detected extremely quickly within Ukraine by major global cybersecurity players. They were reversed and dealt with on a global level within hours. The world is watching this, not just from our narrow perspective but from a global one, extremely carefully and with massive resources. The types of systematic concern we have about European or global systems in financial services or any other system are also being watched very carefully by global and national bodies on a global basis. The world is watching and waiting for any kind of activity coming out of the region - that is the term we tend to use - extremely carefully. It is not that we sit and wait for it to happen. We watch within the jurisdiction of the conflict to ensure it is not coming out of there.
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