Opinion: Cyber piracy has hurt Ireland this year - but we can affect change internationally

UANI Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Robert writes: "To guarantee its cyber security, Ireland needs to join the push for action against rogue states. The ransomware attack carried out in May against the HSE was Ireland’s first taste of mass-scale cyber piracy and the severe infrastructural damage it can visit upon states and their citizens. An emerging global threat, against which few states have invested sufficient resources to defend themselves, cyberattacks have become a tool in the arsenal of many malevolent groups. For many of us, cyberpiracy conjures visuals of shadowy organised crime groups, hidden in dark rooms filled with bright monitors."