Richard Browne

been a target or a vector of a lot of this or European budgets or whatever it might be, then you'll see some more activity in the cyber domain.

And that's exactly what we're preparing for.

So if you look at, for example, the Polish presidency, they had a lot of activism around funding for Ukraine.

Same thing happened in the Spanish presidency.

So those types of things are what we expect to see during ours.

We've prepared for this.

I mean, most of the preparations we have in place for years are designed to deal with this anyway, and we do it on a daily basis.

So nothing will change in that regard.

We've also gone and conducted a full national dress rehearsal for a major cybersecurity incident during the presidency two weeks ago.

So we ran an exercise called Exercise ARU, which included a full one day.

So we've gone from

if you like, business as usual through to if it goes really badly wrong, how do we manage and react?

Yes, we did.

Exercises like this.

We would expect that we would, bluntly.

Exercises like this is to start off with the normal business as usual and then elevate to a point beyond the realms of the possible.

But to test and try and break national cyber crisis response in every sector.

So we've pushed this to the very limit in reality this time.

would never occur, but we did.

And not only are we practising and testing, we're also training people across the system how we respond so everybody understands what our role is and what we will require of others when we do so.