Snow Go
A few people have asked me about what they should do regarding business continuity as a result of the recent heavy snow falls. I have pointed many of them to the excellent business continuity plan template that the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment published recently for the H1N1 flu virus and which is equally applicable to […]
Upcoming IISF Meeting
The Irish Information Security Forum is holding its next meeting on November 12th in Buswells Hotel at 2pm. The meeting will include a presentation from Noel Comerford of the ESB on the area of “Information Security Metrics- What to Measure and How to Measure it.” This promises to be an interest session given that Information Security Metrics […]
Think You Know Computer Security?
Well if you do then you should try the HackEire challenge being run by the Ireland’s CSIRT, the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service, as part of their annual Cyber Crime Conference. The competition is open to teams of up to 4 people in each team. IRISS have set up a dedicated network with a […]
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 […]
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? […]
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. […]
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 […]