Smarttech and IT@Cork's Ronan Murphy has said that Irish companies are "woefully unprepared" for complying with the General Data Protection when it goes live next year, The Irish Times reports. "It’s mind-blowing quite how unprepared Ireland is for GDPR, which has tremendous implications for companies of all sizes,” said Murphy. His statement comes on the heels of an EY survey of 1,735 IT professionals that indicate that cyberattacks against Irish companies have increased 29 percent in the past two years, and that "Irish businesses are more likely to be the victim of an attempted cybersecurity incident than many of their counterparts in other countries," the report states. Editor's Note: The IAPP will host a GDPR Bootcamp at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Intensive 2017 in London, 13-16 March.
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