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 […]
For years, conversations about data sovereignty have tended to begin with location. Where is the data stored? Which region is the cloud environment in? Is it inside Ireland or elsewhere in the European Union? Those remain important questions, but on their own they leave a gap. An organisation can know precisely which data centre holds […]
In many Irish organisations a large proportion of staff still have local administrator rights on their own laptops. The rights are usually granted when the machine is set up, because it saves support calls later, and they tend to stay in place because removing them creates exactly the calls they were meant to avoid. […]
At one point a heavy stone against the door was how a household kept intruders out. Then came the wooden latch, then the lock and key, then the Yale cylinder lock, then the five-lever mortice lock, then a safety chain on the inside, and eventually a door with locking points along its full height. Alongside […]
For organisations operating operational technology and critical national infrastructure in Ireland, two pressures are arriving at the same time. The first is regulatory. The second is technical. Both are forcing organisations to rethink whether their OT environments are designed not just to prevent attacks, but to contain them and maintain operations when prevention fails. For […]
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 […]