Renaissance has spent much of this year in conversation with organisations running operational technology across Ireland. Utilities, manufacturing, transport, a number in pharma. Different environments, different constraints, but one pattern keeps repeating. Ask about perimeter security and the answer comes quickly. Firewalls, segmentation between IT and OT, remote access controls, monitoring on the boundary. People […]
Part of the Lead’n the Channel series with Visibility Wins Author: Adam Grant Date: September 7th The way IT buyers discover vendors and service providers is changing. Half of B2B technology research now begins with an AI chatbot, and the shortlist a buyer arrives with is increasingly one that ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity has built […]
Most security architecture rests on an assumption that nobody says out loud: that the thing arriving at the perimeter has been seen somewhere before. A signature exists. An IP carries a reputation. A payload matches something in a database maintained by somebody whose job is to maintain it. The whole apparatus of blocklists, feeds and […]
Renaissance is bringing a new event to the Irish market. MSP Expo Ireland takes place on Wednesday 4th November 2026 at Medley, Fleet Street East, Dublin 2, from 9am to 3:30pm, and it is free for MSPs to attend. The idea came out of conversations we have been having for years. Managed service providers turn […]
Where transposition currently stands NIS2 came into effect on 17th October 2024. Ireland missed that deadline and has still not transposed the directive. The vehicle is the National Cyber Security Bill, approved for priority drafting in July 2024, with the General Scheme published on 30th August 2024. The Bill remains unenacted. On 8th July 2026 […]
Supplier Risk in Ireland: What NIS2 and the EU AI Act Are Really Asking There is a question moving through Irish organisations at the moment, and it rarely arrives in conversation. It turns up in a customer’s security questionnaire, in an insurer’s renewal pack, or in the pre-qualification documents for a public tender. The wording changes, […]
Download Policy Under NIS2: What Irish Organisations Need to Evidence Ask an IT manager how software gets onto a laptop and the honest answer has changed a lot in ten years. There was a time when it arrived through a build, a deployment tool, or somebody from IT sitting at the desk with a licence […]
AI Is Already in Use Across Your Business. Governing It, Testing It, and Seeing It Is the Work That Comes Next. Most organisations across Ireland and the UK now have AI in active use, and in a lot of cases it arrived without anyone formally deciding to bring it in. People started using AI tools […]
Can Your Infrastructure Handle AI? The Backup, Ransomware and Storage Questions to Answer First AI is moving quickly through Irish organisations, and much of the infrastructure underneath it was built for a very different set of demands. As large language models, AI agents and automated workflows become part of everyday operations, data volumes climb, data […]