Brian Honan – SC Magazine Information Security Person of the Year 2013
The SC Magazine Awards are held each year during the Infosec conference in London. It is one of the most prestigious events in the information security field and the awards are one of the most coveted. Having been selected as one of the finalists for the award last year, I was honoured when I first […]
Winner of Best Educational Blog !!
Last week was the annual trek to London for Infosec to which I’ve gone for more years than I care to remember. This year saw the second European Security Bloggers meetup which was organised by both Jack Daniel and myself. It was also the first year for the EU Security Blogger Awards. Alan Shimel has been running […]
A Call to Arms for Infosec Pros
My latest article for Help Net Security magazine is now online. In this piece I highlight how the lack fo leadership in the information security industry will cause us a lot of problems and ask that we all do what we can to address this problem. You can read the piece here.
Hacking Senior Management – Video Interview with Tripwire
Earlier this year I attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco. While there I met up with my friends from Tripwire, including David Sparks. David and I started talking about the challenges security professionals have in securing the business environments they work in. He was intrigued when I said the problems I see are not […]
Information Security Bloggers Meetup 2013
As you may know Infosec Europe is on from the 23rd to the 25th of April. There will be plenty of events and parties taking place around the show. But if you are a blogger in the information security arena then you should drop by to the Information Security Blogger Meetup. This will be the […]
First Impressions RSA Conference
Well yesterday was a big day for me. It was my first time attending RSA Conference in the US. I have attended RSA Europe many times and was looking forward to seeing how different the US conference is to the European one. All I can say is that everything is BIG, and when I say […]
Facebook Breached
Facebook announced this evening that they have been the subject of a security breach impacting laptops used by some of their employees. According to the Facebook statement the laptops of some of their employees were last month infected with malware when they visited a compromised mobile developer website. The compromised site hosted a previosuly unknown […]
Brian Honan Finalist in SC Magazine Awards 2013
The year 2013 is of to a great start. Not only has this blog been shortlisted in the finals of the RSA Security Blogger Awards under the category of Most Educational Blog, I found out last week that I have been selected as a finalist in the SC Magazine Awards for Information Security Person […]
Bit9 Security Breach – Lessons Learnt
News broke on Friday evening that the security vendor BIT9 suffered a security breach. BIT9 offers a solution to clients whereby they will whitelist applications to run the PCs of their clients. This is done by digitally signing each approved application to allow it run on the protected computer. The theory behind this method is that […]
Today Is Safer Internet Day
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Safer Internet Day. BH Consulting has long been a big supporter of this initiative. Here are some resources that you can use to help make children and younger adults safely enjoy their online world. Webwise has a raft of resources for parents, teachers and guardians Microsoft has a blog […]