Brian Honan Comments on Infosecurity Europe 2014
Infosecurity Europe 2014: Experts Highlight Potential for Security as a Business Enabler as Show Attracts more than 15,000 Unique Industry Professionals Greater collaboration is essential to preventing ‘cyber-war’ keynote speakers’ claim At this year’s Infosecurity Europe conference and exhibition, senior figures from both government and industry have called for greater collaboration on how security intelligence […]
US Senate: Firms Must Protect Users Against Malvertising
A US Senate subcommittee has warned internet advertising companies that they need to better protect internet users from malvertising. Or face the consequences. In a report released yesterday, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by senator John McCain, said that hackers were increasingly infecting computers via malware hidden inside online advertising. Self-regulation, it said, has […]
UK Office Workers Lack Trust In Digital World As 1-In-7 Hit By Cybercrime
A new survey from PhishMe Inc. has revealed that the majority of UK office workers have trouble deciding who to trust (awareness training helps) in this, the digital age. That, however, is hardly surprising on account of the fact that 14% have already had a bad experience on the sharp end of cybercrime. The study examined the attitudes […]
Proofpoint, The Human Factor: Advanced Attacks Exploit People
Who’s clicking on what, when and where are they clicking and why on earth are they doing it? Those were all questions Proofpoint were looking to answer in its recent The Human Factor white paper, developed using three months data from the company’s Targeted Attack Protection product. During the last 12 months, according to Proofpoint, […]
Bridging the Airgap
Yesterday I spoke at the International Society of Automation Ireland Section’s Cyber Security Conference. My talk highlighted how relying on air gaps to protect ICS and secure networks is a fallacy. Using well known incidents as examples of how air gaps failed I outline the problem and ways to address it. http://www.slideshare.net/brianhonan/bridging-the-air-gap
UK Survey: 25 Percent of Breaches Go Undetected for More Than 24 Hours
A new survey from Tripwire, Inc., has discovered that 40% of retail and financial organisations need 2-3 days to detect a breach. Last Tuesday I met up with detective novel-inspired Dwayne Melancon and other key Tripwire personnel as part of the Eskenzi press lunch that was being held in conjunction with InfoSecurity Europe 2014. The […]
Mikko Hypponen and I Talk About Whistleblowers
Last week I attended Infosec Europe in London. I hosted a keynote panel on Tuesday on “Actionable intelligence: Building a holistic security threat intelligence capability“. On Wednesday morning I attended Mikko Hypponen’s Keynote. In his keynote, “Whistle Blowing: Threat or Opportunity?“, Mikko highlighted that companies and governments need to understand that with today’s technology individuals have […]
Imperva Hacker Intelligence Initiative Report: "The Non-Advanced Persistent Threat”
Last week , whilst at Infosecurity Europe 2014, I was fortunate enough to have a meeting with Amichai Shulman, CTO of Imperva, during which he revealed some very interesting research. Previewing the company’s April Hacker Intelligence Initiative report, “The Non-Advanced Persistent Threat,” Shulman revealed that some ‘advanced’ threats are actually incredibly simple to execute, requiring only basic technical […]
"I've Got A Secret And I'm Not Telling You What it Is!"
“Ner, ner, I know something you don’t.” How many times did the older readers amongst you hear that in school? “I’ve got a secret and I’m not telling you what it is!” Yeah, thats something I heard a lot when I was growing up. Children of all ages, especially younger ones, placed huge value on […]
Heartbleed Reaction Not All It Could Be Amongst General Population
“Heartbleed changes everything.” Thats something I heard said several times this week whilst at BSidesLondon and InfoSec and it should be true but, according to a Pew Research Center survey, it probably isn’t (in terms of the general public taking an interest in issues that concern them). Despite the best efforts of security experts and […]