ThreatLocker kickstarts EMEA expansion with new HQ

Security vendor eyes DORA as it plays European explorer

The Dublin office in Blanchardstown creates 120 jobs as the EU prepares to introduce major new legislation, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which will place additional cybersecurity requirements on financial services providers.

The Florida-HQ group said its venture into Ireland is a strategic move designed to capitalise on DORA and the growing demand for businesses to strengthen their cybersecurity.

"Launching in Dublin today is a major strategic milestone for ThreatLocker as we begin our expansion into the European marketplace," said its CEO and co-founder, Danny Jenkins.

"Our company has many Irish links and Dublin is the EU headquarters of so many major global companies, so it is the perfect location.

"ThreatLocker has ambitious targets for growth and we are very excited to push ahead with this new phase in our company's history."

ThreatLocker operates a Zero Trust endpoint security platform as well as Application Allowlisting, Ringfencing, Storage Control, Elevation Control, and Endpoint Network Access Control (NAC) solutions to ensure a secure approach of blocking exploits of unknown application vulnerabilities.

The vendor boss added that cybersecurity is an increasing problem for many businesses owing to the spike in sophisticated attacks, presenting huge opportunities for specialists like ThreatLocker.

"The introduction of DORA across the EU will also see financial services providers upping their game to protect themselves and their customers from attack," Jenkins said.