LIR Annual Seminar and AGM 2022

Tony Clarke is VP of IT Operations and Information Security at Marken who provide flexible supply chain solutions for the clinical trial landscape. He started his career in electronics and transitioned into Information Technology where he began to focus in cybersecurity. Tony worked in consultancy for several years providing IT services and building environments for banking, telecoms, government, UN and EU agencies. Over the last 20 years, Tony has provided IT & security services to several organisations across a wide variety of industries before specialising in healthcare. 

He holds a M.Sc. in Security and Forensic computing and an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, a post-graduate certificate & M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, drug development and numerous IT, cybersecurity, privacy and artificial intelligence qualifications. 

John Cox is University Librarian at the University of Galway. He has a particular interest in digital libraries, open scholarship and scholarly communications. Projects led include planning for a library building transformation at NUI Galway, digitisation of the Abbey and Gate Theatre archives, and Irish consortium negotiations with publishers. His publications include review articles on the higher education environment driving academic library strategy (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2020.102219), communicating new library roles to enable digital scholarship (https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2016.1181665) and positioning the academic library in the institution (https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2018.1466342)

Title: The Cyberattack Experience at University of Galway, 2021-???? Abstract: John Cox, University Librarian at the University of Galway, will describe Library’s experience of the cyberattack experienced by the institution at the end of September 2021, including its ongoing implications. The presentation will address the following aspects of the cyberattack: what it felt like; its impact; how the Library responded; current status; and key learning points.

Gillian Kerins is the Assistant Head of Library Services: Planning and Administration at TU Dublin

She will speak about the impact of a ransomware attack on library services in an Irish HEI. She will consider the issues caused, actions taken, what was involved etc.

Louise is the ICT Security Services Manager at HEAnet; Ireland’s National Education and Research Network for the past five years. She holds both a Degree and Masters from University of Galway and is a certified CISA auditor and Lead ISMS Implementer.

Alan Pike is the IT Security Officer for TU Dublin. He has been working in TU Dublin since 2007 as an IT professional where he has been involved with a number of large projects, including the migration from G-Suite to Office 365, before moving into his new role in November 2020.

In his new role as IT Security officer, he has been involved in the design and implementation of MFA for all users and is currently leading the project to implement a single EDR solution across the University.

Alan holds an MSc in Computing in the area of Security and Forensics which was awarded in 2019.

TU Dublin were the victims of a ransomware attack in April 2021, which affected the Tallaght Campus. Alan will be discussing the security measures that have been implemented since this attack to improve the security posture of the University.