Reduce Risk Before Attackers Find It First.

Ireland is at a turning point. The EU AI Act is already in motion, Ireland’s Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 is taking shape, and the Government’s new National Digital and AI Strategy has set out an ambitious roadmap for how the country will operate in an AI-driven world. For organisations in the public sector and education, this isn’t a distant conversation – it’s happening now.

But with greater AI adoption comes greater risk. Attacks are faster, stealthier, and increasingly AI-automated. Attack surfaces are growing. And for lean IT and security teams already stretched across competing priorities, chasing alerts is no longer a sustainable strategy.

In this session, Renaissance and Bitdefender will show you a smarter way forward. One that works alongside the tools your organisation already has in place – not against them. You’ll hear how Bitdefender’s Offensive Services can give you an honest picture of your real exposure, and how PHASR, Bitdefender’s proactive hardening and attack surface reduction solution, can disrupt ransomware attacks by proactively restricting up to 95% of the legitimate actions that attacks abuse. Less noise. Less risk. More control.

Whether you have questions about Ireland’s new AI legislation, want to understand how PHASR or Offensive Services could work for your organisation, or just want to share what you are seeing on the ground, there will be dedicated time for open Q&A.

Who Should Attend?

This session is designed for anyone in Ireland responsible for cyber security, IT infrastructure, or compliance within their organisation. Whether you work directly in the public sector or education, or you support organisations in these sectors as a technology partner, this is a session built around the challenges you are facing right now.

Key takeaways:

In this 45-minute session, you will learn how to:

• Understand the evolving regulatory landscape, including the EU AI Act and Ireland’s AI Bill 2026, and what the growing compliance burden means for your organisation’s security obligations.

• Get an accurate picture of your real-world exposure through Bitdefender’s Offensive Services, including pen testing, red teaming, purple teaming, and vulnerability scanning, before attackers find the gaps for you.

• Stop chasing alerts and get ahead of threats with PHASR, built to disrupt ransomware and stealthy AI-automated attacks by restricting up to 95% of the legitimate actions that attacks abuse.

• Understand how Bitdefender’s solutions are designed to complement and strengthen the security tools your organisation already has in place, with no need for a rip and replace approach.

Agenda: 

11:00 – Business Introduction, Michael Conway, Renaissance

11:05 – New Rules. New Threats. Is Ireland Ready for the AI Era? Mark Olding, Bitdefender

11:35 – Q&A

11:45 – Close

Michael Conway

Managing Director,

Renaissance

Mark Olding

MSP Product Specialist,

Bitdefender

Resources

Faster, stealthier, AI-automated attacks are putting Irish organisations under pressure like never before. Bitdefender’s portfolio is built to work alongside your existing security investments, helping public sector and education organisations reduce their attack surface, meet growing compliance obligations, and get ahead of threats before they cause damage. Explore the resources below to find out how Bitdefender’s Offensive Services and PHASR can help your organisation move from reactive to proactive security.

Bitdefender is a cybersecurity leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide. Guardian over millions of consumer, business, and government environments, Bitdefender is one of the industry’s most trusted experts for eliminating threats, protecting privacy and data, and enabling cyber resilience. With deep investments in research and development, Bitdefender Labs discovers over 400 new threats each minute and validates around 40 billion daily threat queries. Learn more.

We work with our partners to deliver solutions and services to make your clients’ and customers’ IT environments more secure and compliant and future proof these solutions by tailoring these to suit their needs and requirements. Renaissance and our suite of security vendors and partners are ideally placed to work with organisations to help analyse current security systems, design a way to improve them, and deliver the improvements over time, starting with the most critical systems and vulnerabilities. Learn more.

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