committed to bringing security professionals together to discuss the driving forces which reduce human cyber risk in a world of borderless security.

Watch the Cyber Skills Webinar where members of the National Task Force discuss Cyber violence against women and announce the creation of the first National Cyber Security Awareness Task Force for Ireland.

Cyber Awareness Ireland (CAI) are a national body who research, develop & curate Cyber Security Awareness messaging in Ireland. CAI have an ambitious program to cultivate original research in cybersecurity awareness with framing its survey work at national scales, leveraging Ireland's population as a living laboratory to investigate the behavioral dimensions of cybercrime victimization - and prevention.

Cyber Awareness Ireland are the are the National curators for the official STOP.THINK.CONNECT™ campaign in Ireland. Cyber Awareness Ireland launched the STOP. THINK. CONNECT. campaign in October 2021 to promote the campaign's globally recognized messaging and to inform the discipline of cybersecurity awareness with new and innovative research into the human factors that contribute to cybercrime victimization.

STOP. THINK. CONNECT. Ireland is the 24th nation to launch of the campaign since its inauguration in October, 2010 by the United States Department of Homeland Security which established STOP. THINK. CONNECT. as the cybersecurity awareness campaign for the United States government.

"We are honored to be joined by CAI in the establishment of the campaign in Ireland - and in working with Ms. O'Connor and Ms. O'Hagan in the development of a very important resource I hope will be emulated in other nations: a cybersecurity awareness research center that addresses human factors at population-level scales,"

-Peter Cassidy, co-founder and CEO of the STOP. THINK. CONNECT. Messaging Convention.

The CAI have established a sub working group that sits within Cyber Awareness Ireland - referred to as National Cyber Security Awareness Task Force.

The NCSA-TF is committed to bringing security professionals together to discuss driving forces which reduce human risk in a world of borderless security. The NCSA-TF have committed to a 12 month collaboration with Safe Ireland. Safe Ireland is a national organization with responsibility for domestic violence in Ireland. Safe Ireland can greatly benefit from the expertise, knowledge and training that the cyber security industry in Ireland has to offer and the NCSA-TF have committed to delivering.

Safe Ireland reported a rise in the use of technology facilitated abuse in cases of domestic abuse and coercive control throughout the pandemic. This coupled with the change in delivering services online has left Safe Ireland with a number of gaps. This National Task Force aims to equip Safe Ireland with the support, knowledge and tools to adapt in this rapidly changing landscape and continue to support their staff and service users.

With this task force, We are closing the gap between the cyber security industry in Ireland and the national organization that support the survivors.

Joanne O’Connor - NCSA-TF