EY Ireland partners with CrowdStrike to strengthen cyber resilience in the agentic era
Tom Slattery, consulting partner, technology consulting leader, EY Ireland; Ben Emslie, vice president, Northern EMEA, CrowdStrike; Puneet Kukreja, consulting partner and resilient nation leader, EY Ireland; Megan Conway, consulting partner and consulting markets leader, EY Ireland; Jonathan King, senior director, GSI and global service providers EMEA, CrowdStrike
EY Ireland and CrowdStrike today announced a strategic collaboration to help organisations across Ireland strengthen cyber resilience, defend against cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and securely accelerate the adoption of agentic AI.
As cyber threats become faster, more sophisticated and increasingly automated, organisations across every industry and sector – public and private – are under growing pressure to protect critical services, maintain operational continuity and engineer resilience.
The collaboration brings together EY Ireland’s cyber transformation, resilience, risk and managed services experience with CrowdStrike’s AI-native Falcon platform to help organisations identify emerging threats, strengthen security operations and build greater resilience. As adversaries weaponise AI and organisations adopt AI, cloud technologies and increasingly interconnected digital operating models, the time between exposure and impact is rapidly shrinking, creating new challenges for organisations and their boards as they seek to manage cyber risk and strengthen operational resilience.
Puneet Kukreja, partner, resilient nation leader, EY Ireland, said: “Ireland is entering a defining phase in its resilience journey. AI is collapsing the time between vulnerability and impact, outpacing traditional defences and decision cycles. As organisations embrace AI and autonomous technologies, resilience needs to be built into operations, technology and decision making from the outset.
Ben Emslie, vice president, Northern Europe at CrowdStrike, said: “As organisations accelerate AI adoption, they need trusted partners to help modernise security operations while staying ahead of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. By combining the Falcon platform with EY Ireland’s cyber and transformation expertise, organisations can eliminate complexity, strengthen security operations and stop breaches while securely adopting AI.”
Tom Slattery, partner, technology consulting leader, EY Ireland, said: “When AI-enabled threats move faster than cyber defences, organisations need security operations that can keep pace. As organisations expand their use of AI, agentic technology, cloud and digital services, they are managing increasingly complex technology environments. By bringing together EY’s cyber transformation experience and CrowdStrike’s advanced threat detection and response capabilities, we can help clients strengthen cyber resilience, respond more effectively to incidents and prevent disruption to business services.”
Organisations across Ireland’s public, regulated and critical sectors are accelerating AI adoption and digital service delivery while facing sophisticated cyber threats, complex technology dependencies and rising expectations from boards, regulators and customers. Compliance with frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA remains important, but resilience must go further. Organisations need to demonstrate that critical services can continue operating under pressure.
EY Ireland’s Resilient Nation strategy is based on the belief that the resilience of individual organisations is increasingly linked to the resilience of critical infrastructure, public services and the wider economy. Its Resilience Engineered strategy focuses on embedding resilience into the design and operation of critical services, technology platforms and business processes, rather than relying solely on reactive controls or documented continuity plans.
Through the collaboration, EY Ireland will combine its cyber and transformation expertise with the Falcon platform to help organisations:
- Develop cyber resilience strategies and modernise security operating models, embedding resilience into critical services, technology and decision-making.
- Accelerate the adoption of agentic security operations by combining AI-powered threat intelligence, automation and unified data to help security teams detect, investigate and respond faster to AI-enabled threats.
- Improve threat detection, investigation and response, bringing together agentic security operations, managed services and visibility across endpoint, identity, cloud, data, AI and hybrid environments.
- Leverage industry-leading threat intelligence to help organisations understand the adversaries targeting them to proactively identify security weaknesses and threats and act before disruption occurs.
- Enhance cyber incident response, crisis management and recovery, helping organisations protect critical services, maintain continuity under pressure and recover faster.
Together, these services will help clients move from fragmented and reactive security models towards a more integrated and intelligence-led approach to cyber resilience.
Cyber resilience is no longer measured solely by an organisation’s ability to prevent or detect an incident. It is increasingly defined by its ability to anticipate disruption, protect its most critical services and make effective decisions under pressure to maintain trust. This demands a shift from resilience as a collection of plans and controls to resilience as an organisational capability. Technology, people, governance, operating models and third-party dependencies must work together to strengthen organisational resilience and protect critical services.
Megan Conway, consulting markets leader, EY Ireland, said: “Clients across Ireland want to innovate with confidence while managing increasing cyber and operational risks. Together with CrowdStrike, we are helping organisations adopt AI and digital technologies more securely, while strengthening the resilience needed to protect trust, support transformation and create long-term value.”
The collaboration is intended to support organisations across different sectors, including financial services, government, transport, healthcare, life sciences, energy, utilities, technology and telecommunications.
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