![]() ![]() The company was founded in 2007 by MIT graduates Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Bono and the Edge invested in the company in April at around the same time Dropbox started talking to the IDA about locating here. The two U2 members were a factor in convincing Dropbox, which has been valued at $5bn to $10bn (€3.9bn to €7.7bn), to come here. Galway-man Sean Byrne, an employee of Dropbox in California, also vouched for us. ![]() Lohrasbpour said Dropbox had already begun to advertise its first series of jobs to join a five-strong team moving to Dublin from California. "The number one thing we we are looking for is passion for technology and helping people," Lohrasbpour said. "When you satisfy that need, it would certainly be a plus to have multilingual skills." She said Dropbox was looking for a lot more than just people capable of answering users' questions. "They will also be looking for trends in usage and bugs and helping to solve problems with our engineers," she added.A country with a small population, such as Ireland, whose companies probably did not have cyber insurance was a less attractive target. The Covid-19 pandemic changed everything. Cybercriminals started targeting companies whose security was stretched by employees working remotely. The pandemic has been a lucrative time for cybercriminal gangs and they have been emboldened to improve their tools and carry out more attacks, targeting bigger targets. There is little room for error in cybersecurity, while cybercriminals only need to get lucky once.Īnd if the cybercriminals have access to a so-called “zero-day” bug - a previously unknown flaw in an organisation’s software - it would allow potentially undetectable access to systems, rendering most of its defences useless.įor the HSE, this week's attack will affect patient care and privacy and will have a monetary cost, but systems will be restored and services will survive.Ĭritics of the HSE have blamed an under-investment in cybersecurity for the breach. The question quickly becomes, how much would have been enough? #BYRNE DROPSHARE SOFTWARE# The HSE has made investments to improve cybersecurity, with ongoing programs to upgrade its systems. Does the HSE need to be hacker-proof? That's an almost impossible task. We know the HSE didn’t suffer any major critical cyberattacks until this week. Its security systems have performed well in the past, successfully recovering from a ransomware attack against an agency in Wexford in 2017 and an attack on Tullamore hospital’s IT system in 2018. Whether it meant to or not, the HSE spent money that could have been used to tighten its IT security on patient welfare. ![]()
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