Boost for Longford! 80 new jobs are announced by cybersecurity firm
It would mean that skilled professionals and graduates could stay in the county to work
Longford received a major boost when it was announced recently that Irish cybersecurity company ZeroRisk is to create 80 new jobs with a local councillor insisting it can enable skilled professionals and graduates from Longford to remain in the county.
The Irish start-up, has begun a major recruitment drive in the Longford region and is interested in applicants with language skills to support its global customer base.
ZeroRisk, which is setting up a new facility in Longford at the Axis Centre, has unveiled plans to employ up to 80 people in the area in the coming year.
The company provides SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) to some of the largest financial institutions in the world.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said creating over 80 new jobs 'is a huge boost to Longford and the surrounding region'.
Mr Martin added, "ZeroRisk’s expansion of its Irish operations with a new, dedicated European support centre is a vote of confidence in our highly skilled workforce and our focus on supporting businesses to invest in Ireland."
Local Fianna Fáil Cllr Seamus Butler said he was pleased and the jobs announcement was 'hugely welcome' and they will diversify the base.
"Longford has a very good reputation for manufacturing and the engineering side of things.
"This relatively new industry, it's an industry that wasn't there 20 years ago and they are the sort of jobs that are sought after by graduates.
"I think the investment Longford County Council has made in STEM, which was prompted about five or six years ago, Ericsson's only had one Longford employee and computer science is in all the secondary schools now that I am aware of and this would make a huge difference and it will greatly aid Longford people getting a college degree in computer science or a related area and then being able to come back to Longford and raise their family and make a good living."
The ZeroRisk company was set up in 2023 by Gary Nolan and has offices in Dublin and Georgia in the United States.
The company said the jobs being advertised will play a key part in delivering onboarding, compliance, and cyber risk services to merchants and financial institutions operating in multiple countries and languages from across Europe and further afield.
The company’s growth has been driven by increasing demand from financial institutions seeking more effective ways to manage compliance and cyber risk across large merchant portfolios.
The company’s platform enables acquiring banks and payment providers to automate compliance, monitor cyber threats in real time, and gain actionable insights into merchant risk.