EY Ireland Partners with CrowdStrike to Help Irish Organisations Strengthen Cyber Resilience in the Agentic Era

The partnership combines EY Ireland's cyber and transformation expertise with CrowdStrike's AI-native Falcon platform to help organisations defend against AI-powered cyber-attacks, strengthen security operations and protect critical services.

EY Ireland and CrowdStrike today announced a strategic collaboration to help organisations across Ireland strengthen cyber resilience, defend against AI-powered cyber-attacks 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 at 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. Together with CrowdStrike, we are helping organisations build intelligent, AI-enabled cyber resilience capabilities that operate at the speed of today’s threats, protecting critical services, strengthening trust and enabling organisations to navigate the Agentic era with confidence.”

Ben Emslie, VP, 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.”

Building resilience at the speed of AI

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 vision 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 approach 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.

Navigating the Agentic era with confidence

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.

The collaboration is intended to support organisations across different sectors, including financial services, government, transport, healthcare and life sciences, energy and utilities, technology and telecommunications.