In Brief

The Challenge

Cybersecurity is a global challenge - affecting individuals, organisations, and societies in general. Small companies are even more vulnerable than larger organisations. Despite 95% of small and medium Irish businesses experiencing a cyber-attack in the past year, most Irish SMEs have inadequate resources to effectively address the risk. The societal impact of improving the Irish SME sector’s resilience to cyber risk will accrue not only to the SME sector but the wider Irish economy. 

The Solution

Our solution develops cyber prediction and response tools to improve the resilience of Irish SMEs and, by extension, the wider economy to cyber shock events. Working closely with SME Stakeholders, cyberrange technology will model the sector’s risks. Solutions will be identified and validated using the cyberrange and packaged in user-friendly ‘cyber tools’ that will be available to Irish SMEs at the conclusion of project. 

The Team

  • Team Lead: Dr Hazel Murray, Munster Technological University  
  • Team Co-Lead: Gillian O’Carroll, Munter Technological University  

Societal Impact Champion

  • James Caffrey, National Cyber Security Centre