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.

  1. Threat Intelligence Group
  2. 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.

  1. 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

Emer O’Neill,
Global Security Response Senior Manager, VMware

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Sean McSweeney,
Head Of Department of Computer Science at MTU

Eoin Carroll

Eoin Carroll,
Principal Engineer at McAfee

Richard Parker

Richard Parker,
Director of Cyber Security Infrastructure at Dell

Alie El-Din Mady

Alie El-Din Mady,
Offensive Hardware Security Lead, Qualcomm

Paolo Palmieri

Paolo Palmieri,
Lecturer in Cyber Security at University College Cork

Kevin Burke

Kevin Burke,
Enterprise Account Executive at Malwarebytes

Eoin Wickens

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

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Veronica (Cryan) Rogers,
Assistant Lecturer at IT Sligo

Paul Brady

Paul Brady,
Director – Enterprise Information Security at Optum

Cian Collins

Cian Collins,
Strategy & Growth Manager at Advantio

McGarvey John

John McGarvey,
Lecturer in Computing at LYIT

Virgina Lee

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

jasonFlood

Jason Flood,
CTO Security, IBM

mariaHyland

Maria Hyland,
Security & Software Engineering Leader

AidanButler

Aidan Butler,
Senior Software Engineer, IBM

Anthony Keane

Dr Anthony Keane,
Head of School of Informatics & Cyber Security, TU Dublin

DarrynOBrien

Darryn O’Brien,
Modern Work & Security Lead, Microsoft

brianHonan

Brian Honan,
Owner, BH Consulting

SME Committee

Pat Larkin Cyber Ireland Chairperson

Pat Larkin,
CEO, Ward Solutions an Ecko Company

brianHonan

Brian Honan,
CEO, BH Consulting

David McNamara (1)

David McNamara,
CEO, CommSec

Brian Martin

Brian Martin,
Head of Project Management, Integrity360

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Dermot Williams,
Managing Director, Threatscape

Stefan Umit Uygur (2)

Stefan Umit Uygur,
CEO, 4Securitas

Rahim Jina

Rahim Jina,
Co-Founder & COO, Edgescan

Paul Delahunty

Paul Delahunty,
CISO, StryveSecure

Paul Conaty

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

Eoin Carroll,
Principal Engineer at McAfee

Andy Grzess

Andy Grzess,
Chief Technology Officer at Smarttech247

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