A young company (founded in 2008), AlienVault is a major provider of security management software and crowd-sourced threat intelligence technology. This followed on the heels of a similar decision from Alien Vault last year. We were extremely impressed with the technical talent in Cork and the ecosystem the government has helped to develop to fill the skills gap, specifically in the demanding and competitive field of cybersecurity We evaluated several locations within Europe to expand our business and establish an EU base to better serve our clients on both sides of the ocean. The Customer Support and Development Centre in Cork will be integral to the Malwarebytes European expansion plans. In coming to Cork, Malwarebytes joined an established group of security software companies based in the area with an existing trained pool of professionals and a supporting educational ecosystem offered by UCC and CIT. Marcin Kleczynski Founder & CEO said: “Cork has a deserved reputation as a leading location for technology companies, with a talented workforce and established tech ecosystem, it gives Malwarebytes the opportunity to build a world-class team.” This fast growing company has already been nominated as one of Forbes Magazine’s ‘America’s Most Promising Companies’ this year. Their proprietary and innovative software protects both consumers and businesses using intelligent heuristics and behaviour-based technologies. It was founded in 2008 to tackle advanced online threats, which consistently escape detection by traditional anti-virus tools. Malwarebytes is an example of the new breed the IDA is targeting. This may change with the gradual deepening of software development opportunities these new arrivals will offer.Įarlier in the year, Malwarebytes, the company founded to protect people and businesses from next-generation cyber threats, chose Cork as the site for its EMEA HQ, creating 50 new jobs over the next 3 years. Trustev) and they must generally move out of the region to find R&D work. Software development and R&D work for the local Software graduates is scarce (mainly done by the indigenous companies e.g. The existing Cork employment landscape was becoming a little unbalanced as the bulk of jobs are customer support, sales and call centre based activities. These newer arrivals are the most interesting as they bring the promise of a bigger emphasis on R&D and development work which will enrich the skills of the talent pool here. Swelling the ranks of the existing large Cork employers such as McAfee, EMC (RSA), SolarWinds and Trend Micro, who all have substantial customer technical support and sales operations in Cork, we have a few recent announcements that are now busy with bootstrap activity. And they all seem to like the look of Leeside. This is partly as a result of the IDA’s (the Industrial Development Authority) targeting of emerging mid-sized US and Canadian corporations for inward investment packages. Emerging giants.īut the biggest moves are coming from the emerging global players. In the past 18 months, SensiPass has established its headquarters in Cork and secured investment from the SOSventures Fund (Sean O’Sullivan from RTE’s Dragon’s Den). They are experiencing rapid growth with user adoption in the USA.Īnd looking to smaller startups we have SensiPass with a multi-factor authentication solution to eliminate the need for passwords. Recent start-up, Trustev have won many awards for their revolutionary anti-fraud technology, including SXSW, Forbes and the EC “Best Startup in Europe” awards. Smartech are a good example of a Cork company transforming themselves from a managed services provider into a cyber-security and threat prevention business. Indigenous local players in the cyber game.Ĭork already has a bunch of talented local startups and SME software firms who already service B2B corporate and retail end-user security needs. In my roles of mentoring smaller startups and talent acquisition tasks for the larger firms I get an insight into both ends of the employment spectrum. Let's look at why this could happen who's already active in the region. The question really is where is the cyber-security pulse today and where will it be in the future? My bet is that it won't be located too far from my office.įrom recent and previous investment announcements, made by some leading multi-national players in the cyber security business, it looks like Cork, on Ireland's south coast, could become quite a hub for such activity.
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