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. Michael Scott:
The NCSC set-up seems strange. I cannot make sense of it. It is as if it is modelling itself on MI5. I am surprised the director's name is even known. Maybe we should call him "M", but the British may have copyright on that. It is not appropriate or what an organisation like that should be. The website should have such information as saying to people that they can contact Joe Bloggs, the phishing expert, if they have a phishing problem, or a ransomware expert, and so on. Seventy people are employed, but I could not name one apart from the director, who I found using Google. They are invisible. What is the problem? Are they afraid? Maybe they think they will come under personal attack, but that is not how other people do it.
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