The Technology Strategy Board within the UK has recently provided access to funding (up to £5,000) for SMEs, entrepreneurs and early stage start-ups looking to gain assurance around their ‘Cyber Security’. Funding IT Security and assurance activity can be a real barrier to SMEs. When it is placed against other competing ... Read More

The Technology Strategy Board within the UK has recently provided access to funding (up to £5,000) for SMEs, entrepreneurs and early stage start-ups looking to gain assurance around their ‘Cyber Security’.Funding IT Security and assurance activity can be a real barrier to SMEs. When it is placed against other competing priorities, ... Read More

A question that I am often asked is "What is Cyber Security?" Cybersecurity or Cyber Security is a widely used term and one that most people will now have heard of. Many will need to understand the term if they are tasked with protecting information systems. Cyber Security as a term ... Read More

A question that I am often asked is "What is Cyber Security?"Cybersecurity or Cyber Security is a widely used term and one that most people will now have heard of. Many will need to understand the term if they are tasked with protecting information systems. Cyber Security as a term can ... Read More

I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Edinburgh Symposium on Information Security: Governance, Sharing and Risk in a Digital Age on the topic of resilient information security. Testing for an organisation's resilience to an Information Security incident is an area of research that I have created and developed.  I have worked within the technical ... Read More

I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Edinburgh Symposium on Information Security: Governance, Sharing and Risk in a Digital Age on the topic of resilient information security. Testing for an organisation's resilience to an Information Security incident is an area of research that I have created and developed. I have worked within the technical security ... Read More

[Cell Injection] Attacking the end user through the application.[Introduction]At 7 Elements our approach to application security testing blends the identification of technical exposure with business logic flaws, which could lead to a breach in security. By taking this approach, and by understanding the business context and envisaged use, it is possible to provide ... Read More

Following on from the morning overview, Marek now takes a look at the afternoon sessions.Alex Stobart from Mydex- Citizen-centred personal Data stores. Mydex has been chosen to be one of 9 Digital Public Services. Mydex will provide Identity Assurance that empowers the individuals to manage their personal data and acquire ... Read More

Symposium on Information Security: Governance, Sharing and Risk in a Digital Age.For those who are not from Edinburgh or did not have a chance to attend the Symposium on Information Security, this blog will provide some basic information on what the symposium was about. David and I managed to attend ... Read More

Or just “large sized networks”Intro In his spare time Tiago leads a Portuguese based research team. Recently they have undertaken a research project to port scan the world. In this blog post Tiago takes a look at how they approached this and the key lessons learnt so far.The overall aim ... Read More