'Privacy v safety' compete in battle against cyber peril

There are 500 cyber companies in Ireland with 730 offices, 398 in Dublin. In terms of population, there was a “very concentrated cluster” in Cork, with 131 offices, with 86 in Belfast, 38 in Galway and 31 in Limerick.

Trust and information-sharing between the State and industry is crucial in combating cyber crime — but data protection restrictions and security considerations pose limits to that cooperation, a cyber security conference has heard.

Research revealed at the conference, organised by Cyber Ireland, also shows there were around 500 cyber companies in the country, some five times more than some previous estimates.