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I will be speaking at the 5th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Conference this year on the 27th of October. The theme for the event is “Data Protection: Global Compliance Management” and I will be speaking on “Building an Information Security Culture and Policy”. I will also be taking part in a panel discussion in [...]
As someone who has been campaigning for mandatory data breach disclosure laws in Ireland for a number of years I am pleased to see the proposed Data Security Breach Code of Practise from the office of the Data Protection Commissioner. I have long argued that organisations need to realise that the data they hold on [...]
I got an email today pointing me to this story in Time magazine, Trying to Escape the Surveillance State, where a journalist tries to live for a month without his privacy being impinged. It led to a conversation about privacy and whether or not there is privacy on the Internet or will people pay the [...]
The 21st annual report from the Data Protection Commissioner’s office has been released. As usual it makes for some very interesting reading. The report notes that the number of breaches reported to the office has doubled since the previous year. Most of these reported breaches are from organisations within the public sector. While the first [...]
Thanks to the Privacy and Information Security Blog I became aware of a very interesting development within the Germany with regards to amendments to German Data Protection legislation. On July 3rd the German Federal Parliament passed a number of changes to the German Federal Data Protection Act and will come into force on the 1st of September 2009. Some [...]
RTE‘s Prime Time Investigatesprogram ran a piece on 2nd of July on the extent of Cyber Crime in Ireland. The program is now available online and it has me contributing to it. The segment starts about 18 minutes into the program. Interesting take aways from the program for business owners; You have legal obligations under the Data [...]
Today’s Irish Independent has an article on “Are buggy smart phones now the reality in our new ‘beta culture’?” Marie Boran interviewed me for the pieceasking for my thoughts on the security implications resulting from our acceptance in using Beta products. From a security point of view I have to admit that I do have concerns [...]
The raft of data breaches involving lost laptops and mobile devices that occurred last year, both in the government and private sector, led to a rash of organisations running out to encrypt these mobile devices. While an effective tool in helping to secure data on mobile devices, encryption by itself is not a silver bullet [...]
It appears that a security breach at Deutche Telekom in 2006 exposed personal details of over 17 million customers of its mobile phone division, T-Mobile. The company claims that no credit card or financial details were exposed but that information such as email addresses as well as mobile numbers and addresses was exposed. The company [...]
It has been an interesting week to say the least with regards to information security breaches in Ireland. First we heard of the responses to Ruairi Quinn’s question as to how many portable devices belonging to government departments have gone missing this year. So far over 45 devices have been lost. Damien Mulley has a breakdown [...]