Cyber Ireland Working Groups
Sharing knowledge and building the cyber security community
Regional Chapters: provide a regional forum for the cyber security community to come together and link with Cyber Ireland’s national activities. Activities include: regular meetings on topics of interest; identifying regional challenges, coordinating the key stakeholders across industry, academia and government; and feeding into Cyber Ireland’s national activities.
Special Interest Groups (SIGs): provide a forum where our Members can come together to explore an area of interest or specific technology area, with a goal of collaborating and sharing expertise and experiences to address common challenges.
- Threat Intelligence Group
- Operational Technology Security (OT Sec) Group
Special Interest Groups (SIGs): provide a forum where our Members can come together to explore an area of interest or specific technology area, with a goal of collaborating and sharing expertise and experiences to address common challenges.
- Threat Intelligence Group
Cyber Ireland Newsletter & Working Groups Mailing List
South Chapter
The South Chapter brings together cyber security professionals in the Munster region. It was launched in February 2020 by Richard Browne (former Director of the National Cyber Security Center). The South Chapters focus areas include: Talent Development, Career Promotion to Students and Children and Threat Intel.
South Chapter Leads
Emer O’Neill,
Global Security Response Senior Manager, VMware
Sean McSweeney,
Head Of Department of Computer Science at MTU
Eoin Carroll,
Principal Engineer at McAfee
Richard Parker,
Director of Cyber Security Infrastructure at Dell
Alie El-Din Mady,
Offensive Hardware Security Lead, Qualcomm
Paolo Palmieri,
Lecturer in Cyber Security at University College Cork
Kevin Burke,
Enterprise Account Executive at Malwarebytes
Eoin Wickens,
Threat Researcher at BlackBerry
West Chapter
The West Chapter is a collaboration with Itag’s Cyber Forum, which provides a forum for industry and academia to share information, provide feedback from industry and support skills development in the region for the cyber security sector.
The itag Cyber Forum run a regular Cyber Tuesday meetup and Cyber Security Mentor Programme to link industry industry experts encourage and create opportunities for those attending our with the Online Cyber Security Conversion Programme.
North-West Chapter
The North West Chapter was established in November 2020 and aims to build the Cyber Security Community in the Sligo & Donegal Region. Our focus is on three areas: Networking & Collaboration, Talent & Skills, and Awareness & Advocacy.
North-West Chapter Leads
Veronica (Cryan) Rogers,
Assistant Lecturer at IT Sligo
Paul Brady,
Director – Enterprise Information Security at Optum
Cian Collins,
Strategy & Growth Manager at Advantio
John McGarvey,
Lecturer in Computing at LYIT
Virginia Lee,
Consultant – DevSecOps at Tata Consultancy Services
Dublin Chapter
The Dublin Chapter is our newest chapter established in 2021. The group focuses on the cyber security challenges in the Dublin region.
As part of their launch, the chapter has released their own podcast reviewing cyber security reports. The first episode focuses on the recent Cyber Ireland State of the Cyber Security Sector in Ireland 2022 report.
Dublin Chapter Leads
Jason Flood,
CTO Security, IBM
Maria Hyland,
Security & Software Engineering Leader
Aidan Butler,
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Dr Anthony Keane,
Head of School of Informatics & Cyber Security, TU Dublin
Darryn O’Brien,
Modern Work & Security Lead, Microsoft
Brian Honan,
Owner, BH Consulting
SME Committee
Pat Larkin,
CEO, Ward Solutions an Ecko Company
Brian Honan,
CEO, BH Consulting
David McNamara,
CEO, CommSec
Brian Martin,
Head of Project Management, Integrity360
Dermot Williams,
Managing Director, Threatscape
Stefan Umit Uygur,
CEO, 4Securitas
Rahim Jina,
Co-Founder & COO, Edgescan
Paul Delahunty,
CISO, StryveSecure
Paul Conaty,
Principal Consultant, CWSI
Threat Intel Group
The Group aims to build Threat Intel capabilities within the Cyber Ireland community through information sharing, best practices, and thought-leadership. The TI Group established the Threat Intel Series: “From Zero to Hero”, a monthly meeting to explore TI and sharing from beginner to advanced topics.
Threat Intel Leads
Eoin Carroll,
Principal Engineer at McAfee
Andy Grzess,
Chief Technology Officer at Smarttech247
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