Updated Security Awareness Guide Availble
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 […]
Cyber Crime is a Real Business Issue
A recent report released by Finjan highlights that cyber crime is a growing concern for businesses of all sizes. Ninety one percent of 1,387 IT managers surveyed consider cyber crime as a major risk to their business with 73% claiming data theft is more worrying than downtime or malware infection. What is even more interesting […]
New Interesting Blog
I recently came across Owen O’Connor‘s Security In Ireland Blog. Owen is one of the best information security professionals that I know and he provides invaluable insight into many current information security issues facing us here in Ireland. I highly recommend you jump over to Owen’s Blog and check it out. While there you should […]
Takeaways from Cyber Crime Seminar
So another year passes and the nearest this Mayoman gets to Croke Park in September is the annual Global Security Week conference. However the quality of yesterday’s Cyber Crime seminar more than made up for Mayo not reaching the All-Ireland final. The Cyber Crime seminar that we hosted as part of Global Security Week was […]
Still Some Places Available for Tomorrow's Seminar
There are still a number of spaces available for tomorrow’s Global Security Week seminar on Cyber Crime. The seminar will be hosted at Jurys Croke Park on Wednesday the 10th of September from 2:00 p.m. Registration is free and open to anyone concerned with Cyber Crime. Places can be booked by contacting Brian Honan on 01-4404065 […]
New Security Website Launched
As part of Global Security Week a new website has been launched to help promote awareness amongst home and business users. The Surfingsafer website provides information on a range of computer security products that are available. The site also has links to best practise and provides advise on how to protect your systems from cyber […]
CERT Helped Crack TJX Hacking Case
It appears that CERT/CC helped US authorities in their case against the 11 people charged with hacking into the TJX network and stealing over 40 million credit card details. This is a great example of one of the benefits a CERT can provide the Internet community. Having professionals develop tools and skills in fighting cyber […]
Keeping Data safe at work
Today’s Sunday Independent ran a piece in their business supplement on what companies should be doing to protect the data stored on various devices such as PCs and laptops. I am quoted in the article and highlight that companies need to develop their data classification and handling policy and educate their staff in same before […]
5 Things You can do During Global Security Week
Rebecca Herold has come up with “5 Easy Things To Do For Global Security Week“. These are practical and easy steps that you can use to take part in this years event, be that at home with family and friends or in your workplace. If you have any other suggestions please do let us know […]
Global Security Seminar Covered by SiliconRepublic.com
Marie Boran from The SiliconRepublic.com published a good article on the upcoming Cyber Crime seminar being run next Wednesday at 14:00 in Jury’s Hotel Croke Park. There are still places available so if you are interested in how cyber crime can impact you or how to prevent you, your family or your company becoming victims […]