€7m investment for MTU's Cork Cyber Innovate initiative

Facility was crippled in a major cyber-attack last year

Josette O' Mullane, innovation and enterprise manager at MTU and Donna O’Shea, chair of Cybersecurity MTU. Picture: Darragh Kane

A cyber security innovation hub is to be established at a Cork university which was crippled in a major cyber-attack last year.

A €7m investment will be announced in the Munster Technological University’s (MTU) Cork Cyber Innovate initiative on Friday which is designed to boost cyber security innovation and entrepreneurship in Ireland over the next six years.