Information Security D-List Interview of Brian Honan
Andrew Hay is a gentleman I became acquainted with thanks to twitter. Andrew is a modest chap who describes himself as a “devastatingly handsome author, sporadic blogger, bbq junkie, and security strong man”. He has an excellent blog and has recently decided to run a series of interviews of people in the information security industry. I […]
SANS Coming to Dublin in 2010
I am delighted to see that SANS are running their training event again in Dublin in 2010. The event will run from March the 15th until March the 20th, perfect timing for those of you who want to come to Ireland to celebrate St. Patrick’s day. The courses that will be held are; Sec 401 – […]
Sometimes You Do Not Need to Outrun the Lion
Last night I gave a talk to students studying the Bachelor of Science in Computing in Information Security and Digital Forensics degree course in the Institute of Technology in Blanchardstown. The purpose of my talk was to paint a picture of what they could expect once they moved their careers into the field on information […]
New Blog in the Neighbourhood
The kind people over an Infosecurity Adviser invited me to blog on their site. Today I published my first post, Cloudy Vision, highlighting some of the issues I have seen with people moving to the cloud computing platform. While I plan to contribute regularly to the Infosecurity Adviser site I will still publish material on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Next IISA Ireland Meeting To Be Held On September 3rd
The next meeting of the Irish chapter of the ISSAwill be held on September 3rd in the Westbury Hotel, Dublin. There are some great speakers lined up including; Les Kelly – Head of IT Security with Bank of Ireland Raj Samani – Consultant for Cap Gemini & acting as CSO for the UK’s NHS Captain […]
Prime Time Investigates – Computer Crime
RTE‘s Prime Time Investigatesprogram ran a piece on 2nd of July on the extent of Cyber Crime in Ireland. The program is now available online and it has me contributing to it. The segment starts about 18 minutes into the program. Interesting take aways from the program for business owners; You have legal obligations under the Data […]
Normal Service is Resumed
Apologies for the break in posts. I upgraded the Blog to a new version of WordPress which resulted in some of the editing capabilities of the Blog to go AWOL. Having upgraded to the latest version over the weekend these issues are now resolved. So hopefully I can get back to normal service. Which is […]