Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

We have observed on previous occasions in this House that the criminal world is adept at exploiting new technologies for all the wrong reasons, which is something against which we must remain vigilant. In the United Kingdom, for example, we have seen a large number of critical websites taken down as a form of protest. Government websites containing private data relating to citizens are particularly vulnerable to such attacks. How many Defence Forces personnel are engaged in the area of information technology protection and security? Are there external consultants undertaking strategy work in this regard on behalf of the Defence Forces? Second, how much has been invested by the Defence Forces in their own information technology systems in order to ensure they are fully secure against any potential outage?

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