ENISA Publishes Report on Infosec Certification Schemes
Last year I worked on a project group with ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) that studied the whole area of certification schemes within the information security industry. The group looked at the different schemes focuses at personal accreditation, product certification and organisational certification schemes. The merits of certification were discussed in detail […]
Upcoming Training Event – Managing Information Security using ISO 27001
In partnership with the Centre for Software Engineering we are running a two day course on “Managing Information Security with the ISO 27001 Information Security Standard”. The course is scheduled to run on the 15th and 16th of April 2008 and you can book your place on the course by contacting the Centre for Software Engineering. The […]
Latest information Security News Roundup
Below is a round up of news stories relating to information security that we have collated from the past few days. For ease of use we have categorised the stories under the most appropriate headings. If there are other stories that may be of interest please let us know via the comments feature. VULNERABILITIES […]
Lessons Learnt from the IBTS Information Security Incident
As discussed last month The Irish Blood Transfusion Board suffered a security incident whereby a CD containing encrypted information on blood donors was stolen in New York City. This was the first major publicly reported data loss incident that we have seen in Ireland. As promised in earlier posts, now that the dust has settled […]
COSAC 2008 – Special Guest Invitation to Security Watch Readers
Last year I attended my first COSAC Internetational Computer Security Symposium as a speaker. It was my first time attending COSAC and I found it one of the best conferences on information security I have been to in a long time. I have attended quite a few conferences but COSAC is one of the few […]
Latest information Security News Roundup
Below is a round up of news stories relating to information security that we have collated from the past few days. For ease of use we have categorised the stories under the most appropriate headings. If there are other stories that may be of interest please let us know via the comments feature.
Dial Up Security Issues
Damien Mulley interviewed me a while back regarding security issues that users still using dial-up access to the Internet typically face. Damien has now published the article on his blog. Dial up users do face the challenge of having to download myriads of software patches and signatures for anti-virus and anti-spyware software. In many cases the […]
Latest Information Security News Roundup
Below is a round up of news stories relating to information security that we have collated from the past few days. For ease of use we have categorised the stories under the most appropriate headings. If there are other stories that may be of interest please let us know via the comments feature.
Latest Information Security News
Below is a round up of news stories relating to information security that we have collated from the past few days. For ease of use we have categorised the stories under the most appropriate headings. If there are other stories that may be of interest please let us know via the comments feature.
Researchers Break Disk Encryption
The Wired Blog highlights research conducted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Princeton University have discovered a way to circumvent full disk encryption on computers, even when they are turned off. It appears that the contents of in memory can linger on in RAM from where the encryption key can be copied from. The lenght […]