Cyber security and innovation during a global pandemic, insights with Des Ryan, Microsoft Ireland

We talk to Des Ryan Director of the Microsoft Ireland Specialist Teams Unit, to learn morn about cyber security risks, supporting your work force and clients, and how to keep innovating during a lockdown .

Cyber security and innovation during a global pandemic, with Des Ryan, Microsoft Ireland

Des Ryan is Director of Solutions at Microsoft Ireland. He is a member of Microsoft Ireland’s Senior Leadership Team and holds commercial responsibility for driving new business and solution sales growth. He and his team work with Microsoft’s Enterprise and Public Sector customers as well as Microsoft Partners to understand their key challenges, helping to devise new solutions to those challenges, and empowering them to digitally transform and stay relevant within a rapidly changing technological landscape.

Des joined Microsoft on returning to Ireland in 2018. He brings a wealth of international experience having spent twenty-five years working internationally with stints in USA, Singapore and Australia. During that time, he held senior executive roles in the partner community focused on Consulting, Managed Services and Solution Sales. He has also served at board level. Des has a technical heritage and so is comfortable in both technical and business forums.

Des has a BSc in Information Systems from Limerick Institute of Technology and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Des Ryan, Solutions Director for Microsoft Ireland, said: about digital security ->

“Cyber hackers are opportunistic, skilled, and relentless. They have become adept at evolving their techniques to increase success rates, whether by experimenting with different phishing lures, adjusting the types of attacks they execute or finding new ways to hide their work. While our physical work locations may have changed, our responsibilities in protecting organisational data and complying to data regulations have not.  Now is the time to address this with an increased investment in cybersecurity, secure devices, tighter policies, increased support, and education for employees so they can play an important role in not only protecting themselves but also their organisations.”

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