Dr. Richard Browne:

The Deputy will probably be aware that there is a long-standing history in industry of commercial espionage by cybersecurity firms seeking to exercise or test companies, including the simple thing of throwing a USB key over the wall in the car park at night and see if somebody picks it up and plugs it in. There are a number of things that that could be. Obviously, I will not talk about any specific entity or any particular incident. However, that kind of activity is not unknown. The long-standing advice - this is a cyber hygiene piece which is a downstream question - is that people should not be picking up or using devices of whose provenance they are unsure.