Across the world, cybersecurity talent remains at a premium and in some instances unattainable as there is currently negative unemployment in the sector. In fact, by 2022, it’s estimated the industry will have 1.8 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs.

In Skyfall, the 2012 film in the James Bond series, our erstwhile hero comes back from the ‘dead’ to fight the fictional cyber villain, Raoul Silva, who manages to interfere with satellite signals, attack the London underground, tamper with elections and destabilise the stock market.

The new national cybersecurity body that will be led out of Cork has been launched with a warning that cybercrime is expected to be worth almost €5 trillion in two years.