There is a version of this conversation happening in Irish MSPs every week. A client’s IT lead, or sometimes their CFO, forwards a questionnaire from an insurer, a supply chain partner, or a prospective customer. Somewhere in the document, usually buried in the governance section, a question asks: how do you assess human cyber risk […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A report from Brandefense on the Irish threat landscape makes for uncomfortable reading. Irish organisations are being actively targeted. Data is appearing on dark web forums. Phishing campaigns are running undetected. Attack surfaces are exposed in ways that most IT and security teams are simply not aware of. Read the report here: Ireland Cybersecurity Threat […]
The Business Cost of Network Downtime and How Irish IT Teams Are Solving It Faster Network downtime is one of those problems that every Irish IT team knows well but few talk about in terms of what it actually costs. Not just the cost of getting it fixed, but the hours lost, the escalations, the […]
Taking Control of Cloud Data Risk: What Irish Organisations Need to Know Ask most IT or security leads in Irish organisations where their sensitive data lives and you will get a variation of the same answer: mostly in the cloud, probably across a few SaaS tools, and possibly some places we have not fully mapped […]
Is Your Customers’ Microsoft 365 Ready for Copilot? Microsoft Copilot is no longer a future conversation. Across Ireland, organisations of every size are either already running it or actively planning to roll it out. For MSPs and VARs, that shift is both an opportunity and a risk — and the ones who get ahead of […]