Cybersecurity Just Became a Boardroom Job in Ireland
NIS2 Board Governance · Cyber Guidance for Ireland What the NCSC’s new cyber governance guidance means for management boards in NIS2 entities. Picture a ransomware attack landing on a Tuesday morning. Under NIS2, that is no longer just an IT problem to escalate up the chain, it is a problem the board is legally accountable […]
Why Backups Are Your Last Line of Defence After a Cyber Attack
Backup & Disaster Recovery · Irish SME Guide Why a working, tested backup is the single factor that decides whether your business survives a ransomware attack, and the gaps that catch most Irish organisations out. In our previous post, Your Business Just Got Hit by a Cyber Attack. Here’s Exactly What to Do, we walked […]
Your Business Just Got Hit by a Cyber Attack. Here’s Exactly What to Do.
Cyber Attack Response Plan · Irish SME Guide A calm, step-by-step cyber attack response plan based on official NCSC guidance, covering ransomware, BEC, malware and more. The moment you realise your systems have been compromised is one of the most disorienting a business owner can face. This guide exists so you don’t have to think […]
Strengthen Identity & Access: Why Attackers Log In Instead of Hack In — and What Irish Businesses Must Do Now
NCSC Cyber Resilience Series • Step 5 of 12 If your April vulnerability assessment was thorough, identity-related findings sat near the top: overprivileged accounts, gaps in MFA coverage, stale credentials that nobody has rotated in years, service accounts with domain-level permissions nobody remembers creating. That’s not a coincidence. Attackers have known for years that the […]
Who Has Access to What? Folder Permissions, GDPR, ISO 27001 & the Q9000 Standard: What Every Irish Organisation Needs to Know in 2026
Every week, somewhere across Ireland, a new employee logs in on their first day and one of two things happens. Either they can’t access anything they need — and their first morning is spent waiting on helpdesk tickets — or they can access far more than they should, including files that have nothing to do […]
The Email That Multiplies — Why Irish Businesses Are in the Crosshairs
One click. One compromised inbox. Hundreds of trusted contacts hit within minutes. We’re seeing this pattern more often among potential new clients — and the numbers behind it are deeply alarming. It starts innocuously. An email lands in your inbox — from someone you actually know. A client, a supplier, a colleague you’ve traded messages […]
Vulnerability Assessment: Find Your Gaps First
April’s step in the NCSC resilience series — the part most organisations avoid until it’s too late. Three months in — governance mapped, assets catalogued, threats understood. Now it’s time for the part most organisations skip until a breach forces the conversation: finding exactly where you’re exposed before an attacker does. A vulnerability assessment maps […]
NetSuite AI at SuiteConnect London 2026: MCP Apps, Claude Integration & What It Means for Irish Businesses
Oracle NetSuite has announced a new way for AI assistants to talk directly to your financial data — and the implications for businesses on NetSuite are worth understanding clearly. Something shifted in a conference room in London on 31 March 2026. It wasn’t dramatic — no flashy launch video, no celebrity keynote. Just Evan Goldberg, […]
5,500 Irish Workers Locked Out Overnight. Is Your Business Next?
On 11 March 2026, Stryker’s Cork and Limerick operations were paralysed by a cyberattack that used a tool millions of Irish businesses rely on every day. Here’s what happened — and what you need to do right now. Picture this: you arrive at your desk on a Tuesday morning, open your laptop, and instead of […]
Cyber Threats Facing Irish Businesses in 2026: What You Need to Know
Part of Newtec’s NCSC-aligned 12-Month Cyber Security Resilience Series — Step 3: Understand the Threats In February, we looked at how identifying your business-critical assets strengthens the return on investment of your cybersecurity programme. Now in March, we tackle the logical next question: who is targeting those assets, and how? You cannot defend what you […]