Ireland has a poor history of backing up its cyber security operations
8.5m Windows devices and 674,620 direct customers in 1,200 unique industries were affected. Photo: Getty
One of the things that’s supposed to help stop another ‘blue screen of death’ outage is the NIS2 Directive – an EU law that requires better backups, more resilience and quicker, more proactive responses to cyber security incidents.
But an apparent staffing crisis at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) could mean that Ireland won’t introduce the law when it’s due to be transposed, in mid-October.