Hackers targeting Irish businesses on the rise

One of the world’s leading cyber security experts has called on the Government to invest heavily in combatting cyber attacks as new research reveals that more than eight in 10 Irish businesses have been targeted in the past 12 months.

Intel Security Group general manager Christopher Young said governments, including our own, need to do more to develop the next generation of trained security professionals to combat the increasingly complex array of attacks businesses face.

Visiting the company’s Cork offices, Mr Young said the attackers are currently ahead of the security industry which has traditionally lagged behind the rest of IT in terms of pace of development and called for more to be done to tackle the threats which cost organisations billions of euro every year.