Malicious email volume
Dear Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland),
Please find below my FOI request regarding malicious emails sent to the department.
The date range for the requests is from 2018 to present day. The data shall include a breakdown by year and by individual departments (e.g. separate departments, agencies, or public bodies within the main government agency), if applicable.
1. How many malicious emails have been successfully blocked?
2. What percentage of malicious emails were opened by staff?
3. What percentage of malicious links in the emails were clicked on by staff?
4. How many ransomware attacks were blocked by the department?
5. How many ransomware attacks were successful?
Yours faithfully,
Rebecca Moody
Dear Ms Moody
Thank you for your two requests (the Driver & Vehicle Agency is a part of
the Department for Infrastructure, and would have been captured in any
information provided by DfI).
However, the Department for Infrastructure does not hold the requested
information.
Much of the IT functions within the Northern Ireland Civil Service has
been centralised into IT Assist, a business unit within Enterprise Shared
Services in the Department of Finance.
I have been advised that they will hold the information that you are
seeking and that, as a result, any response provided by DOF will be for
the NICS as a whole, including DfI and its constituent parts.
Thank you.
Hugh Murnaghan
DfI Information Management Unit
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