Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the Cyberattack, Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out and Covid-19 Restrictions in Maternity Hospitals: Health Service Executive

Mr. Fran Thompson:

There are a number of learnings from the Mandiant FireEye team, which include how we harden our infrastructure. Hardening means that if people attempt to get in the system, we take the approach that they are already in and we consider how to stop them from moving around and how to deal with. We are adding the security operation centre, as I said, and we have added additional network tools to monitor and manage the network. We will look at all the e-risk points - the points where people can leave our network - to make sure they are as secure as we can make them. We are taking the learnings and embed them as we go through our recovery phase.