Seanie Byrne: Focusing on the HSE's cybercrime budget is missing the point

Several Government agencies are more vulnerable than the HSE. A major investment is now needed across all Government IT services — we cannot put it off any longer

What Ireland needs is an agency like the United States Digital Service: an elite technology unit to provide expert services to government agencies on IT and cybersecurity.

This might be a controversial opinion but the HSE got its funding exactly right with respect to cybersecurity.

In 2013, when I was working on security for cloud-storage company Dropbox, I wrote monthly reports on the emerging ransomware threat.