Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 December 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes

9:30 am

Mr. John McKeon:

We are as protected as we can be. We had already set up our own cybersecurity unit and we have a cybersecurity structure unit headed at principal officer level, which has 15 people in it. I do not want to say much about it because I do not want private sector people robbing my staff. They are an excellent group of people. We were the first public service organisation to secure an ISO 27001 certification for data and cybersecurity. Around the same time as the cyberattack on the HSE, there was an attempt on our Department and we were successful in repelling it. We work very closely with the National Cyber Security Centre as well. We have good people invested in it. They are under demand and we have lost some of them but we keep doing our best.

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