Review of National Cybersecurity Strategy includes 18 new measuresThe Government is to create a national anti-ransomware organisation and offer cash subsidies to small businesses to help fight cybersecurity threats. The National Cyber Security Centre will also “establish and lead a National Counter-Ransomware Task Force to coordinate efforts to respond to this severe cyber threat”. The proposals did not include any figures for how much will be provided or how it will be apportioned. Recent research suggests that up to half of Irish small firms remain unprepared for a ransomware attack. Other new measures added to the revised Cyber Security Strategy include the development of an expanded programme of joint training and exercises between the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces.

Source: Irish Independent June 29, 2023 03:02 UTC