EU's 'patchy' cybersecurity efforts creating risk of criminal hacks

Ireland ranks 54th in the UN’s International Telecommunications Union’s latest Global Cybersecurity Index.

The European Union’s “fragmented” approach to cybersecurity and the “patchy” capabilities of member states is creating several problems in terms of combating State-level attacks and criminal hacks, according to an international expert.

Ciaran Martin, former head of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, said that a United Nations study, published in 2020, found that more than half of EU states were outside the top 40 countries for cybersecurity, with Ireland one of the worst, ranked 54.