Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Cyber Security Centre: Discussion
Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
To expand on the discussion about the companies, Dr. Browne mentioned a group water scheme, which is usually a voluntary organisation set up to try to bring water to a rural area where it would not have had it before. It is certainly not something you would think anybody in St. Petersburg would try to hack but there you go. The issue is the responsibility of the owners of businesses or charities or whatever to have adequate measures in place. Where there is responsibility, there is also a certain liability. Are there commercial providers working in the field to assist people to ensure they have the level of capacity they need and are properly and well enough protected? Are they expensive? Is that whole cyber-protection area something we can envisage opening up as a potential market? Is that something that is going to become a part of the consultancy firms we have had down the years? They have done a certain amount of work on it. Is it a field they are moving into? What is happening in respect of that space?
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