Upcoming IRISS CERT Conference on Cyber Crime
The Irish Reporting and Information Security Service will be holding its first annual conference on Cyber Crime. The event looks to be pretty interesting especially as attendance will be free. The following is from IRISS CERT‘s website: IRISS will hold its first annual conference on the 19th of November 2009 at the D4 Berkley Court […]
SiliconRepublic.Com Winner of Best Technology Site
I was delighted to hear that SiliconRepublic.Com won the Best Technology Website in this years Irish Web Awards. This is the second year in a row that the SiliconRepublic.Comhas won the competition which is testament to the quality of the work that they produce. It is also the second year that BH Consulting sponsored the […]
Use Webmail? Time To Change Your Password
Various news media are reporting that over 30,000 email accounts belonging to users of web based email providers such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Aol (to name a few) have been compromised. It is unclear yet as to the exact nature of the compromise. Some reports state that the accounts were compromised by a […]
The Worm has Turned
The Sunday Business Post published an article yesterday called in their Computers in Business Supplement. The article is The Virus Evolution and in it Gordon Smith discusses with me and a number of other industry experts the changes we have seen in how computer viruses have developed over the years. Modern viruses are more complex than what […]
Irish Web Awards Best Technology Site
BH Consulting is happy to sponsor the Best Technology Site in the Irish Web Awards. There are some excellent sites in this years finalists and the winner will be announced at the Award ceremony on the 10th of October. Here is the list of the finalists; Maynooth Education Resource Centre Search Find Learn SiliconRepublic.com Inspire […]
Germany Introduces Mandatory Disclosure Laws
Thanks to the Privacy and Information Security Blog I became aware of a very interesting development within the Germany with regards to amendments to German Data Protection legislation. On July 3rd the German Federal Parliament passed a number of changes to the German Federal Data Protection Act and will come into force on the 1st of September 2009. Some […]
Questions to Ask Your Security Vendor
No matter what solutions you look at to help secure your network you need to ensure that whatever ones you select do not undermine your existing security or introduce new vulnerabilities o r problems. This is true no matter if that solution is proprietary software, open source based, an appliance or indeed a service. The […]
The Value of Security Certifications
Within the information security community one of the most debated topics is that of security certifications. I previously blogged about certifications and gave my own views. The mailing list of the Irish OWASP Chapter also had a recent discussion centred around the topic. Many asked the question what value is a certification and which ones should I get? […]
Brian Honan is an ISSA Security Star
To help celebrate the Information Systems Security Association’s (ISSA) 25th anniversary the ISSA are chronicling the showcasing achievements of its members. I am happy to say that my submission for establishing IRISS has been accepted and I am now a security star.
Guest Blog Post
Apart from being on holidays one of the other reasons I have not blogged recently is I guest blogged on Craig Balding’s FudSec blog. Craig set up Fudsec to highlight the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) that has crept into the Information Security industry and used by many, mostly vendors, to scare people into buying solutions. […]