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The Irish Reporting and Information Security Service will be holding its first annual conference on Cyber Crime. The event looks to be pretty interesting especially as attendance will be free. The following is from IRISS CERT‘s website: IRISS will hold its first annual conference on the 19th of November 2009 at the D4 Berkley Court [...]
The European Network and Information Security Agency have recently released their latest position paper on “Security and Privacy in Virtual Worlds and Gaming”. The paper looks into the risks users of virtual online worlds and gamine platforms face from issues such as malware attacks, phishing and privacy issues.
The September 2008 edition of our sister publication, the Security Watch Newsletter, is now available online. For those of you who do not subscribe to our newsletter, you may find it a useful read as we highlight issues and stories that may not be applicable to our Blog
Over the summer I worked on a project with ENISA to produce a white paper “Obtaining Support and Funding From Senior Management“. The paper is now available on the ENISA website. This is very important paper as one of the most important things to ensure the success of any information securtiy awareness programme is to [...]
Two years ago ENISA published an excellent guide on how to raise information security awareness within your organisations. A new version of the guide is now available and well worth the time taken to download and read it. Security awareness can be one of the most effective defence measures you can invest in. Once you [...]
Now that the summer is here, although it is hard to believe that given the weather we are having, it is time for summer schools. As an information security professional you can join in the summer fun too. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation [...]
ENISA(The European Network and Information Security Agency) has recently released an interesting whitepaper on securing USB devices. The paper is a good read highlighting the threats that USB drives pose and listing a number of recommendations to minimise these threats.
The Thursday the 29th of May edition of the Irish Independent had an interesting article in its Digital Ireland supplement discussing whether or not Ireland should have mandatory data disclosure laws similar to those in the United States. I am quoted in the article in support of the introduction of such legislation while Owen O’Connor and Paul [...]
ENISA has extended the deadline for comments on the report “Security Economics and the Internal Market” until May 30th. The paper is the work of Prof. Ross Anderson, Rainer Böhme, Richard Clayton and Tyler Moore (University of Cambridge, UK). The report and guiding questions for comments can be downloaded from ENISA‘s website here.