With the launch of  Apple Pay for the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, the payments industry could be witnessing the birth of the next big thing. Mobile payments have been on the cusp for some time now, but what about existing payment infrastructures. Should merchants and retailers move to Payment Card Industry (PCI) point-to-point encryption as

Tim Holman was featured in an article in SC Magazine  in July – read the whole article below! After facing a barrage of criticism for taking down the No-IP DNS server, Microsoft is now getting praise from some quarters for its impact on malware distribution – though critics remain. MS No-IP takedown hits 25% of

Please read below an article I was featured in by the Computer Weekly Magazine on Data Security.  European retail data breaches largely hidden, SC Congress told The growing number of data breaches at US retailers is largely down to mandatory breach disclosure laws, according to Tim Holman, president of ISSA-UK and chief executive at security consultancy 2-sec. “There are

I was featured in the article by SC Magazine below! Target Breach Aftermath – Is PCI Compliance a “Tick Box” Exercise? PCI compliance was called a ‘gold standard’ and ‘secure baseline’ at a conference in London today, but not all believe that it does enough to guard against data breaches. Panellists speaking at the second

Our CEO Tim Holman was interviewed this week by SC Magazine for his views around the recent Chinese snub of Windows 8.0 and Microsoft licenses. http://www.scmagazineuk.com/china-snubs-microsoft-for-ending-xp-security/article/347890/

Tim was recently interviewed by SC Magazine as to his views on the Heartbleed issue.  The newly formed CERT-UK seems to be doing very little to protect small businesses, and vulnerability researchers have favoured the bigger firms with plenty of advance warning.  Vulnerabilities of this nature cripple e-commerce, and with the UK supposedly leading the