MTU secures funding to simulate cybersecurity attacks

Announcement is timely given the recent surge in high-profile cyber-security hacks, most notably an attack which crippled Ireland's health service recently

The funding for the Nimbus Centre in Cork is timely given the recent surge in high-profile cyber-security hacks.

Munster Technological University (MTU) has received €250,000 in funding for a mobile Cyber Range which will allow the simulation of cybersecurity attacks to test the resilience of IT networks for business and industry clients and help train their cybersecurity personnel. 

The funding was granted to MTU's Nimbus Research Centre at its Bishopstown, Cork campus. It will provide the centre with critical extra capability, unique in Ireland, to offer on-site cybersecurity testing for Operational Technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) networks deployed on physical assets such as monitoring and control systems in the manufacturing and process industries.