Over the past year, a growing number of organisations have produced an AI acceptable use policy. It usually lists the approved tools, sets out what information staff should keep away from them, and asks people to use their judgement. Writing it was a sensible first step. The harder question comes later, when a board member, […]
Ask an Irish IT or security lead whether their organisation has a handle on AI and the answer usually comes with a list of approved tools and a policy in the staff handbook. Ask which AI apps are running on the phones and tablets that connect to company email, files and customer records, and the […]
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 […]
Every Irish MSP knows the quiet truth about Microsoft 365 security. Across a growing book of client tenants, small problems are turning up all the time. A misconfiguration here, a policy that has drifted out of line there, a dormant account that should have been removed months ago, a security gap that nobody has had […]
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 […]
Take Part in Our Ransomware Resilience Survey and Help Shape Ireland’s First Benchmark Report Ransomware is no longer a question of if but when. Globally, ransomware attacks surged by 45% in 2025, with the average cost of an incident now estimated between $1.8 million and $5 million. In Ireland alone, 80% of employees have experienced a cybersecurity incident […]
It can be tempting to rely solely on security infrastructure such as firewalls, endpoint protection solutions, and other core cybersecurity technologies for protection. However, this approach carries significant risk. Regulators across Europe now expect organisations not only to prevent breaches but also to respond swiftly, contain damage, and promptly report incidents. As a result, the […]