Cybercrime: Gardaí pour resources into hi-tech crime fighting

Detective Chief Superintendent Paul Cleary is head of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau, an ever-more important unit with  cybercrime, such as the HSE hack earlier this year, on the rise

Detective Chief Superintendent Paul Cleary, Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau. Picture: Moya Nolan

As has often been the case in Ireland, it is only when something goes wrong — typically badly wrong — that people want to know what the State is doing.

This year, the HSE cyberattack, along with the tsunami of scam calls and texts, have shone a bright light on cyberdefences in this country.