Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Cyber Security Centre: Discussion
Dr. Richard Browne:
To follow up on that, on the operational perspective, we have a very large amount of threat intelligence data going back more than a decade now on "stuff that has happened". The scale of some of that threat intelligence is vast. It is hundreds of millions of data points. The only way of assessing all of that in a material sense, is by using some form of language-based or rules-based process, like AI or something else.
We have done aspects of that for many years, to assist in our analysis. This ensures that we determine exactly what we are seeing in all of our data. As part of the move into our new premises, we are building all of our IT infrastructure again from scratch, to enable us to use much more processing power to get into both our existing data sets and those we are onboarding. This allows us to ensure we can do all of this analysis across everything. There is not much point having the information, in paying public money for the information, unless we can use it properly.
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