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ISSA-UK Dragon’s Den Event, HMS President – Thursday July 11th 2013

ISSA-UK Dragon’s Den Testing Times: Managing Vulnerabilities in Complex Systems HMS President, River Thames, London, United Kingdom Thursday 11th July, 2013 (5 CPEs) Register Here This year’s Dragon’s Den event will be looking at ways to help bring the gap between emerging vulnerabilities/threats and the ever increasing complexity of systems, both of which are taking an

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PCI DSS vs Operating Regulations

I came across an interesting interpretation of PCI DSS recently, whereby a Merchant thought that just because they had been assessed compliant against PCI DSS, then all assessed payment channels also met the security requirements of Visa Operating Regulations. SAQ-C-VT (Virtual Terminal) is a standard that can be used to assess card-not-present and card-present transactions

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The Big Debate: Are you making the right decisions to secure your code?

Our CEO and ISSA-UK President Tim Holman will be speaking at Coverity’s Big Debate in London on Wednesday 3rd July. Event Location: The Brewery, 52 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4SD Date / Time: Wednesday 3rd July 18.30 – 22.00. Drinks and canapés from 18.30, with debate taking place around 20.00 Details: Security breaches make headline news and

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May 2013 Newsletter

Shorts are on, sandals brushed down and summer is here! Unfortunately for us QSAs, someone had a bright idea of issuing a June deadline for both Level 1 and Level 2 Merchant PCI DSS Compliance and summer tends to be the busiest time of the year for us. We are also busy making suggestions and improvements

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Choosing a QSA – tips on how to find some of the better ones…

It is well known there is a low barrier of entry for a security company to become a certified QSA Company (QSAC). As long as a reasonable amount of security experience can be documented and an annual fee paid, the resultant QSA examinations are trivial to pass. This unfortunately leads to a market that is

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Where did all the blogs go?

Sorry it’s been a while since you’ve be ingratiated with a 2-sec blog entry. You might have noticed recent UK press legislation that was put in place following the phone hacking scandal, that appeared to be ubiquitous and spanning all kinds of publishing media. I did at some point work out if I could actually

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The Bit9 incident

We see in the news another example of cyber criminals successfully stealing a private certificate and using it to their nefarious advantage. In this instance, cyber criminals allegedly exploited perimeter defences and web application security to gain access to one of Bit9’s private certificates – https://blog.bit9.com/2013/02/08/bit9-and-our-customers-security/. A private certificate is used to sign an encryption key,

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2-sec in The Guardian – Feb 2013

Tim Holman, CEO 2-sec featured in the UK’s leading national newspaper, The Guardian, talking about social media. Both in print and online. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media-network/media-network-blog/2013/feb/11/social-media-workplace

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ISSA European Conference – Feb 5 2013

Presented by ISSA International & Generously Hosted by Deloitte Theme: Secure Information for Europe The 2013 ISSA London Conference will focus on some key challenges we all face; Cyber Crime, Cyber Conflict & Cyber Espionage. At this conference attendees will hear from leading European & International speakers that will inform and set our future

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The Cyber Sentinel

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