Fighting Viruses; Defending the Net
There are a number of people in the infosec industry who can be classified as an industry leader. Mikko Hypponen, who works with the Finnish anti-virus company F-Secure, is one of those people. Mikko recently gave a talk titled “Fighting Viruses; Defending the Net” at the prestigious TED Conference held in Edinburgh last week. Have […]
Business Assurance in the 21st Century
As you may recall from my “Outlook is Cloudy” post I am the Chief Operations Officer for the Common Assurance Maturity Model (CAMM). I have been involved with CAMM for nearly two years and it has been a pleasure to work with some brilliant minds and excellent people on the project. Earlier this week the […]
Importance of Log Files
The Sunday Times carries a story about the Fine Gael security breach back in January of this year. The paper states that the company, Election Mall, who were hosting the Fine Gael website at the time of the attack were not able/or would not provide the log files to An Garda Siochana and the Data Protection […]
Outlook is Cloudy
Cloud computing has become an exciting evolution in how we deliver, access and use services over the Internet. The Cloud offers organisations many benefits and opportunities. However, these opportunities and benefits do not come without a number of security risks that need to be considered. Ireland is uniquely positioned to handle these issues. In an […]
Interesting Overview of Stuxnet
Stuxnet is one of the most talked about computer viruses in recent times. I stumbled across this interesting video outlining what Stuxnet is all about and its potential impact. Enjoy !! Please accept preferences, statistics, marketing cookies to watch this video.
Security Breach at NUI Galway
While on twitter last night I was alerted by @_Aella to a breach at NUI Galway. According to the information posted on the college’s website they appear to have recently been advised that a file containing the contact details of students who registered or were pre-registered to the college in September 2008. The statement goes on to say that […]
Lessons Learnt From Fine Gael Website Security Issues
The new Fine Gael websitehas been generating a lot of press coverage and social media discussions lately. From a Fine Gael point of view though, most of that coverage is not the type of coverage they wished for their shiny new website. Last week Daragh O’Brien blogged about concerns over the hosting of the website in the US […]
Safe Online Shopping
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) recently published their white paper on “How to Shop Safely Online”. It contains some good recommendations for both the consumer and the provider on how to conduct business in a secure manner while online. I was one of the contributors to the paper which is available to […]
Talking Computer Security
I was interviewed today on the Mooney show on RTE Radio 1. The topic was about cyber crime and its impact on Ireland. During the show we talked about the attacks on the CAO website, which I discussed previously, and also on the types of attacks that we see at IRISS-CERT. I also mentioned that […]
FUD for Thought
I recently wote an article for Silicon Republic on how to engage with senior management in your organisation so that they will buy into your information security program. The key is communicating with the key players in a language that they understand and in a way that you can appreciate the challenges and needs of […]