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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Email data loss prevention (DLP) is an essential part of every email system. Many organisations have deployed DLP tools, yet the top type of GDPR data breach is still reported as “data emailed to the wrong person.” Rules-based DLP systems can add a layer of protection for known sensitive data types like PII, Social Security […]
SonicWall 2024 Threat Report The SonicWall Cyber Threat Report is a valuable resource that cybersecurity professionals use to gain data-backed insights into the current cybersecurity threat landscape. The first edition of the report was published over a decade ago, and as threats evolve each year, the Report continues to document current threats and provide advice […]
Centripetal CleanINTERNET® for Primary & Secondary Education We’d all like to think that schools are exempt from cyberattacks. Sadly, that is not the world we live in, and schools have to deal with the same threats and attacks that plague businesses and other organisations. As outlined in the Centripetal White Paper titled Revolutionising Cybersecurity for […]
Managing risk is crucial in the current cybersecurity threat landscape. In a similar vein to the adage that “you can’t defend what you cannot see” in relation to cybersecurity and devices on a network, you cannot manage risk if you don’t understand the nuances of each different risk type. People use many related terms when […]