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.
- Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) Forum
- Operational Technology Security (OT Sec) Group
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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.
Dublin Chapter
The Dublin Chapter was established in 2021. The group focuses on the cyber security challenges in the Dublin region.
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.
South-East Chapter
The South-East Chapter was launched in January 2024 to serve the growing Cyber community in the South-East region.
The initial industry members of the chapter include State Street, Stryve, Security Risk Advisors, Sun Life, ESET, Business IT Solutions, Forus-P, Code in Motion, HCS Business Solutions, UNUM, UKG, Sedicii, CyberMaxx, and Radius Technologies. It is fuelled by education providers in the region: South East Technological University, Chevron College, and the Education & Training Board.
Business Growth Committee
Brian Honan,
CEO, BH Consulting
David McNamara,
CEO, CommSec
Colin Reid,
Commercial Director, Threatscape
Colm Healy,
CEO, Corrata
Jan Carroll,
CEO, Fortify Institute
Stefan Umit Uygur,
CEO, 4Securitas
Rahim Jina,
Co-Founder & COO, Edgescan
Paul Conaty,
Principal Consultant, CWSI
Sean Morris,
COO, TitanHQ
Cyber Ireland CISO Forum
Cyber Ireland’s Irish CISO Forum is a National Chapter of the ECSO’s European CISO Community (ECC) and aims to share information, discuss common challenges and solutions, meet peers and connect with international forums.
Cyber Ireland OTSec SIG
Cyber Ireland’s Operational Technology Cybersecurity (OTSec) Special Interest Group (SIG) provides a forum for industry end-users, integrators and vendors to share information, best practices and support capability building in operational technology cyber security across organisations and sectors.
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If you would like to join the Working Groups please get in touch with us, we are always looking for new leads from all backgrounds. Whether you are early career or senior management, technical or non-technical, diversity is key.
Send us an email to eoin@[email protected]:
- Which Working Group are you interested in
- Tell us a bit about you
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Our working groups, events and activities are for Cyber Ireland members. For more information on membership visit our Membership Page.