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Infostealers: The Quiet Threat Draining Irish SMEs in 2026
Ransomware gets the headlines, but in 2026 the malware quietly doing the most damage to Irish small businesses is the infostealer. Lumma, RedLine,...
2 June 2026Open file →
Hardening Microsoft Azure for the Irish Public Sector
More Irish public sector bodies are moving workloads to Microsoft Azure, often under tight budgets and tighter deadlines. The default Azure...
26 May 2026Open file →
DORA Is Live: What Irish Financial Firms Still Need to Fix
The Digital Operational Resilience Act has applied across the EU since 17 January 2025. Every bank, insurer, investment firm, and crypto asset...
19 May 2026Open file →NCSC Warns of Phishing Campaigns Targeting Irish Financial Services
The National Cyber Security Centre has warned of a sustained phishing campaign aimed at Irish financial services firms and their customers. The lures...
12 May 2026Open file →
HSE Ransomware Attack: What Irish Organisations Still Get Wrong
In May 2021 the Conti ransomware gang crippled the Health Service Executive, Ireland's public health system. It remains the most significant cyber...
5 May 2026Open file →Inside a Web App Pen Test: Critical Flaws in an Irish E-Commerce Site
We were asked to test a mid sized Irish e commerce site before a busy trading season. The brief was simple: find what an attacker would find. We...
28 April 2026Open file →Securing AWS Workloads for Irish Firms: A Guide to eu-west-1
The AWS Europe Ireland region, eu west 1, is where many Irish firms run their cloud workloads. It is close, it keeps data in the EU, and it is the...
21 April 2026Open file →
NIS2 Directive and Irish Businesses: What You Need to Do
The NIS2 Directive came into effect across the EU in October 2024, and Ireland is transposing it into national law. If you run a medium or large...
14 April 2026Open file →