The threat from cyber crime continues to evolve for Irish firms

With 80% of Irish firms falling victim to cyber crime last year, Peter O’Dwyer talks to a cyber security specialist who urges problem appraisal and straightforward solutions.

More than eight in 10 Irish businesses have found themselves at the mercy of cyber criminals in the past 12 months while a host of international data hacks have brought the topic to the fore like never before.

Irish companies spend an average of €240,000 a year in an attempt to secure their networks — such is the danger posed by the covert yet omnipresent threat cyber criminality presents; always in the ether yet rarely seen until it’s too late.