Outsourced expertise is best for facing the changing IT threats

The number and type of IT security threats facing Irish businesses is growing, but specialist consultants can make the problem go away, says Rits

Angela Madden.

Real world reputations are increasingly made and lost based on how well customer data is safeguarded online, and suffering a public data breach is an embarrassment that every company wants to avoid. But having all the expertise needed to meet this need available in-house is a luxury most companies can’t afford.

“Even smaller organisations now have no choice but to educate themselves in terms of security, and luckily for us being in this ...