Internet security campaign launch

WITH up to 65% of businesses having no internet usage policy and viruses on the increase, the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, launched a “makeITsecure” campaign in Dublin yesterday.

This is the first time Government and the private sector have come together to initiate a broad awareness in the area, the minister told the South Dublin Chambers of Commerce breakfast.

This was a timely initiative given that recent figures show Ireland is the third highest originator of malicious software per head.