For almost 20 years, the multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity firm SolarWinds has operated out of Ireland, serving its international clients from Cork and Dublin with hundreds of employees. The US company recently found itself in a dispute at the Workplace Relations Commission with one of those employees, who voiced concerns about alleged corruption and shady dealings with the company’s Middle Eastern clients. It has fended off the complaint by a former sales manager, but the case has shone a light on the whole matter of protected disclosures. Ali Izzy had worked at SolarWinds for more than five years in a senior sales…