From 16-18 June 2015, please come and join 2-sec and ISSA-UK at the best three days of education, technology and best practice delivered by global leaders in cyber security. We will be at stand BH514 Â – Â WIN A MAGNUM OF CHAMPAGNE! Â Just drop by our stand, and leave your business card for the chance
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Dr Emma Philpott met up with 2-sec CEO Tim Holman at the recent Infosec Expo at Olympia in London. Emma is CEO of the IASME Consortium as well as Founder and Manager of the UK Cyber Security Forum. Â Emma spoke to Tim about IASME (the information assurance management standard for small companies) as well as
We’re delighted to announce that 2-sec has been nominated as finalists for no less than three categories in the 2015 Cyber Security Awards. 2-sec were nominated as: Consulting Practice of the Year and our CEO Tim Holman was nominated in two categories: Personality of the Year Penetration Tester of the Year The awards reward the best
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A recent report written by Enterprise Strategy Group (and commissioned by Intel Security), reveals slow responses to cyber-attacks from UK enterprises are leaving companies vulnerable to targeted online crime. This research is one of the latest attempts to persuade IT users to check their defences against cyber-threats and equally importantly to make some investments into dealing with
According to the latest article from the SC Magazine in the UK, the latest PCI DSS version 3.1 release has “split the IT security profession” when it comes to deciding how much protection it is really providing the card holder who shops online. The article states: The v3.1 PCI DSS release addresses the well known, and high
PCI DSS v3.1 – how much protection does the new update give online? Read More »
Chris Phillips heads up 2-sec’s Physical Security Consulting Practice and is ex-head of NaCTSO, the UK’s National Counter Terrorism Security Office. He provides his own expert view below on the jewellery heist, the failings of the Hatton Gardens physical security team and what should have been done to prevent the attack. The audacious Hatton Gardens
The Hatton Garden’s Heist – how did the Security Team get it so wrong? Read More »
Researchers with Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group have identified a new point-of-sale (POS) malware family – referred to as ‘PoSeidon’ – that takes steps to maintain persistence and also has mechanisms for updating.  The new malware targets POS systems, scrapes the memory of infected machines for payment card information, and exfiltrates the data to servers
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Save the Date for ISSA’s Women in Security SIG webinar on the theme State of Women in the Information Security Field! 6th April 2015 – 4pm EST, 1pm PST, 9pm BST Please click here to register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Speaker: Keirsten Williams: Data Security Analyst-PCI Compliance, Conn’s HomePlus
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The PCI Security Standards Council has released brand new guidance to advise businesses how they should use penetration testing to identify network vulnerabilities that could be exploited for malicious activity. However, a recent article has been published online by  BankInfoSecurity.com (BIS) that appeared to flag up a difference of opinion as to the effectiveness of the new guidance. Whilst one
Debate on the New Guidance from PCI Council – does it go far enough? Read More »
