Professor Thomas Acton:

Mr. Larkin mentioned the Conti group earlier. It is almost a year to the day, unless I have the month wrong and it was April, since a Conti group attack cost Costa Rica's Government the equivalent of revenue.ie. It was disastrous for that Government and the country. Its systems were as robust as ours in many ways. The guys who are state-sponsored are unscrupulous. They do not care. They will chance their arm if there is any weakness. The perception of weakness is a danger and this has been spoken about.