The government is setting up a cybersecure building at a secret location in Dublin to counter what is seen as a growing threat of cyberattack from state actors and international criminals.
Ossian Smyth, junior minister for communications and public procurement, said the new headquarters for the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) would include a secure room or data centre known as a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) to thwart electronic surveillance and cyberattack. The White House “situation room” in Washington is the world’s best known SCIF.
The high-spec equipping of the building is at an advanced stage and likely to account for most of the NCSC’s €2.5 million capital budget allocation this year. Staff will move in from June.
Smyth said cybersecurity at government level
