Tyrone man Ciaran Martin, former head of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, is keen to assure the public that the world won’t be plunged into a new dark age by mass computer outages like CrowdStrike incident in July
Former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre Professor Ciaran Martin (Andrew Milligan/PA)
The UK’s former top cyber spy once found himself face to face with a soldier at an Army checkpoint with a car full of alcohol.
It was the early 1990s and a teenage Ciaran Martin was returning from a “lads’ holiday” in Donegal on the same day Sinn Fein had called a meeting about the proposed ceasefire.