EY Ireland has formed a strategic collaboration with CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) to help organisations across Ireland strengthen cyber resilience and defend against cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence.

The two companies will combine EY Ireland's cyber, resilience, risk and managed services capabilities with CrowdStrike's Falcon platform to help organisations respond to threats linked to AI and broader digital adoption.

The collaboration also involves Tom Slattery, consulting partner and technology consulting leader at EY Ireland, and Jonathan King, senior director for global service providers EMEA at CrowdStrike.

The partnership targets sectors with critical or regulated operations, including financial services, government, transport, healthcare and life sciences, energy and utilities, and technology and telecommunications, as these industries face increasing scrutiny over their ability to withstand outages, cyber incidents and supply chain weaknesses.

Regulatory frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA form part of the backdrop, but the collaboration extends beyond compliance, focusing on whether organisations can keep essential services functioning under pressure rather than simply maintain documented plans. This builds on an existing global alliance between EY and CrowdStrike, under which EY US separately adopted CrowdStrike's Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to modernise its own managed cybersecurity operations.

Puneet Kukreja, Partner, Resilient Nation Leader, EY Ireland, said: "AI is collapsing the time between vulnerability and impact, outpacing traditional defences and decision cycles."

Ben Emslie, Vice President, Northern Europe, CrowdStrike, added: "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."

The structural driver is the shrinking gap between exposure and impact as both attackers and defenders adopt AI, which is pushing boards to treat cyber resilience as a business continuity issue rather than a narrow technology concern.

For the sector, this signals that resilience is being redefined around continuity of essential services during disruption rather than prevention alone, with third-party dependencies and interconnected systems increasingly central to how organisations in Ireland's critical sectors are judged.

Source: securitybrief.ie / irishexaminer.com / ey.com