Our very own Chapter President, Tim Holman, will be standing for a Director position on the ISSA International Board.  Elections kick off on the 2nd June 2014, and of course he and ISSA-UK would appreciate your support when voting opens on June 2 2014. Tim’s goals are set out in his nomination, that follows: Biography […]

We’ve just got back into the office following a busy week at Infosec 2014, where we spent 3 days catching up, networking, manning the stand and listening to the odd talk. I had the joys of speaking at one of the new “silent conferences”.  Due to the acoustic issues of running several speaking sessions in

The UK government and some other large organisations have recently procured Windows XP support extension packages from Microsoft.  HMG in this instance have committed a £5.5m budget to ensure that future security vulnerabilities will be addressed and patched.  And that’s money they might not even have needed to spend. HMG will not be permitted to

Sat in the coffee shop today, as one does as CEO of a huge multinational corporation does (let me know if you see him!), and surprising to hear the number of different conversations that were going on.  On my left were a couple – boss and employee, having a performance review.  A group on another

In response to the recent BBC article (thanks to Robin Lee for sending this on) – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25591548, I wrote the BBC this: I run a company responsible for auditing firms on behalf of Visa, MasterCard, American Express et al, to ensure they are handling credit card details securely (we’re known as Qualified Security Assessors, or QSAs,

I was recently asked by Computer Weekly for my thoughts around the biggest threats facing us in 2014.  Unfortunately my predictions are far from optimistic, as criminals begin to target individuals on an unprecedented scale. 2013 saw an alarming rise in clever spear phishing techniques that companies and ISPs were simply too slow to respond

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

The government has laid out plans to monitor internet usage in the UK, namely to tackle “serious” crime and make it easier to track criminals, through monitoring of webmail, social networking sites, internet phone calls and online gaming. The first reaction of any serious criminal will be to go underground, that’s if they’re not there