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 […]
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 […]
There’s a good chance that Active Directory controls access to almost everything on your network. This is both good and bad. Good in that it provides a convenient central repository for authentication and authorisation. And also bad, as data shows that a significant percentage of attacks and security breaches target Active Directory. Many organisations, in […]
The SonicWall Cyber Threat Report continues to be an anticipated and valuable annual publication. The first edition of the report was published over a decade ago. Cybersecurity professionals use it to get data-backed insights into the current cybersecurity threat landscape. As threats evolve each year, the report continues to document the current landscape and provide […]
The NIS2 Directive, adopted by the EU in January 2022, requires all member states to implement its provisions into national law by October 17, 2024. Only two EU states enacted legislation in time to meet this deadline, and Ireland was not one of them. Although the delay in legislation in Ireland may provide some breathing […]
Full remote and hybrid working arrangements are becoming the norm in many businesses, and are growing in popularity in public sector organisations. This move to partial or complete remote working is true for “knowledge workers” outside of the IT department, but it is also increasingly true for IT staff who perform System Admin functions or […]