Irish Examiner view: We must build up a defence against the dark web

Our cybersecurity body is understaffed and overworked, and lacks the structures and laws to do its job

The State needs a bulwark against bad forces operating on the dark web.

Our interview this week with the Tusla chief executive Bernard Gloster made fascinating reading and no more so than when he described how his organisation was forced back into an analogue world following this spring’s ransomware attack.

A body which handles 60,000 referrals per year needs computer assistance and the forced return to pen and paper, and the powers of memory, were a salutary reminder of how things once were.