Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
A Common Vision for Cybersecurity: Discussion
Mr. Stefan Umit Uygur:
Absolutely. We should start investing locally. We do not do this. I have been to Israel many times. It has Start-up Nation Finder, which raises unicorns and creates start-ups and multinationals which can export. Here we do it the other way around. Start-ups barely survive and they get bought and acquired. This is our gold mine and where we should start.
Most importantly, as everyone has mentioned, collaboration is at the heart of all of this. We have to stop working in silos with everyone having their own agenda. As I said earlier, we have to unify the agendas in industry, the public sector, the private sector and academia. No one alone can make the future brighter. We have to start somewhere and this is why we have drafted a cybervision for Ireland.
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