Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion
9:30 am
Ms Ciara Bartley:
It is outside the remit of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment but the Department of communications is developing a national cybersecurity strategy for industry. I understand that work is quite advanced. We expect good initiatives and key actions from it. In addition to the scheme Ms Carberry mentioned, the new revised trading online vouchers, the grow digital voucher, will cover companies of up to 50 people and there is a wider range of application, as Ms Carberry said earlier. It will cover cybersecurity software where a company has not used it before. All companies of up to 50 people will be eligible for that. It is about providing access to that software for companies in addition to the grow digital voucher, a consultancy is also available with which companies will engage to find out more about their needs. Part of the issue sometimes is that cybersecurity is quite intimidating, especially for SMEs and micro-companies. It is for them to know what they need to and taking that first step in a guided way, which will be helpful.
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