Christmas Greetings
I would like to wish all the readers of this blog, BH Consulting’s clients and our partners a very Happy Christmas and that 2011 will be a happy, prosperous and secure one for us all. We have a number of exciting developments in the pipeline and will be announcing them soon. In the meantime enjoy […]
September Meeting of the Irish Information Security Forum
The next meeting of the Irish Information Security Forum will be held on the 30th of September at 14:00 in Buswells Hotel on Molesworth St. Dublin 2. The topic for the meeting will be “An Overview of Data Loss Prevention”. This will then be followed by a case study of a real-life implementation of Data Loss Prevention technology. […]
IRISSCERT Conference on Cyber Crime
IRISSCERT, (the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service) will be holding its annual conference on Cyber Crime in the D4 Berkley Hotel on November the 18th. The event looks to be very interesting especially as attendance will be free. This all day conference will focus on providing you with an overview of the current cyber threats […]
Speaking at the 5th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Conference
I will be speaking at the 5th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Conference this year on the 27th of October. The theme for the event is “Data Protection: Global Compliance Management” and I will be speaking on “Building an Information Security Culture and Policy”. I will also be taking part in a panel discussion in […]
Annual Report from Data Protection Commissioner Released
The 21st annual report from the Data Protection Commissioner’s office has been released. As usual it makes for some very interesting reading. The report notes that the number of breaches reported to the office has doubled since the previous year. Most of these reported breaches are from organisations within the public sector. While the first […]
Data Breach – What Next?
The above is the title of the talk that I gave at this years Data Protection Conference run by the Irish Computer Society. It was a great event with some excellent speakers ranging from practitioners, to legal experts and the Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes. Bruce Scheier also addressed the conference via a video link. […]
Brian Honan Quoted in Irish Times
The May 5th edition of the Irish Times ran an article, called “Cloud Computing Storm“, on the controversy generated by the recent memo from the Irish Department of Finance advising that government bodies exercise caution when looking to move data or systems to a cloud computing platform. I am quoted in the article in relation […]
Morning Ireland Interview
I was interviewed by RTE Radio 1’s Morning Ireland show about the latest vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The interview focused on the calls by the French and German governments for people not to use Internet Explorer until a patch is released and to move to a different browser instead. The full interview is available […]
Christmas Wishes
I would like to take the time to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and that the New Year will bring you health, happiness and prosperity. Given the weather we are currently having and it being the time of year it is the following expresses how we all at BH Consulting feel;
Latest Issue of Security Watch Now Available
The December 2009 edition of our sister publication, the Security Watch Newsletter, is now available online. For those of you who do not subscribe to our newsletter, you may find it a useful read as we highlight issues and stories that may not be applicable to our Blog