Establishing a National CERT in Ireland
As a nation promoting itself as a knowledge economy and the “Silicon Valley” of Europe I found it strange that Ireland does not have a Computer Emergency Response Team to provide organisations with advice and recommendations on how to defend their networks and what to do in the event their networks are attacked. As a result of […]
The US Cyber Consequences Unit Cyber-Security Checklist Released.
I received an email from Scott Borg, Director and Chief Economist of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit which is an independent research group that supplies the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with information on the consequences of cyber-attacks and evaluate the cost-effectiveness of countermeasures in place to prevent such attacks. As part of this research, […]
The SANS Top 20 2006 List Released
As part of my role as European Editor for The SANS Institute’s NewsBites newsletter I was invited to the recent release of the SANS Top 20 list. The list was launched in partnership with the NISCC who are responsible for protecting the UK’s Critical Network Infrastructure. There were some interesting messages given at that meeting that […]