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New cyber security technology could create 'hundreds of jobs'

Clodagh Rice
BBC News NI business and economics correspondent
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Steve Berry, ANGOKA chairman, says its investment in new software could help create more jobs in Northern Ireland

A Belfast-based cyber security firm is investing almost £2m in software to help prevent the advanced manufacturing sector from cyber attacks.

ANGOKA, which was set up in 2019, has developed the technology which could be used on the likes of drones, trucks and automated buses as well as manufacturing equipment.

It is being developed in partnership with the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (AMIC), one of the Belfast City Deal projects, with financial from Invest NI.

Six jobs will be created initially, but chairman Steve Berry said it could create hundreds of jobs in the years to come.

"This is a world leading project and the biggest in the UK in advanced manufacturing and, as a result, we have organisations like Thales, Rolls Royce, Airbus that are also advising us," he said.

Mr Berry said that the manufacturing sector in the UK alone totals tens of billions of pounds.

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