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Securing Credit Card Voice Transactions

This afternoon, I met the CEO (and co-founder) of Semafone, Tim Critchley. When the invitation to interview him landed in my inbox, I was all set to turn it down. As Critchley himself admits, call centre security is “far from sexy”, and it’s not a topic that had ever occurred to me ...

Posted 09 May 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: credit card, secure , call centre, fraud, payment

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Talking Infosec Awareness and Training with Kaspersky Labs’ David Emm

Shortly before the chaos of Infosecurity Europe, I joined David Emm, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, for lunch in a lovely quiet gastro pub in the Oxfordshire countryside. Whilst I frequently publish Emm’s quotes and photos in the magazine, we both agreed that this was most likel ...

Posted 03 May 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: Kaspersky, Infosecurity, Awareness, Security, Cybersecurity

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Live on-stand interviews & wine: What we're up to at Infosecurity Europe...

Well, it's our last day in the office before we all go on site for Infosecurity Europe next week. There's a lot of excitement (and panic!) in the air...A few bits of news about what myself and the rest of team Infosecurity will be up to at the event next week... First things first, you can find us ...

Posted 19 April 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: Infosecurity, infosec13, Infosecurity europe, ciso, interview

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At War with the World

In February, security firm Mandiant made headlines when they declared the hacking team APT1, “likely government-sponsored and one of the most persistent of China’s cyber threat actors”. China denied the involvement. Reuters reported that Hong Lei of the Chinese Foreign Ministry re ...

Posted 18 April 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: Cyber , Espionage, Cold War, Cybersecurity

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A Chat with Dimension Data: Data Centric Security, Data Breaches, and Why Old is New in Security

This week I sat down with Anna Watson, general manager of security solutions, Europe, at Dimension Data, to have a chat about the state of the information security industry. One direction that the industry seems to be moving in, commented Watson, is towards platforms. “Even the ...

Posted 27 March 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: breach, dimension data, information security , Data-centric

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My morning at CrestCon/IISP Conference

So far, I’ve listened to three talks - sadly I wasn’t allowed to attend the keynote given by CESG – and will be returning after lunch (I’m currently camped out in Café Nero regaining some charge on my laptop and iPhone) to hear some more. Information security isn&rsqu ...

Posted 20 March 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: CREST, IISP, Annonymous, CISO

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RSA 2013: Interview with security evangelist Stephen Cobb

I’ve just spent a fascinating 45 minutes picking the brain of ESET security evangelist, Stephen Cobb. Below are the key statements made by ESET's Cobb during the interview, and his explanation for each: The theme of this year’s RSA is Big Data Sharing “We’ve been ...

Posted 27 February 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: ESET, RSA, Stephen Cobb

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Language is a Virus (Editorial from Q1 issue)

This year we are scaling back on the quantity of issues produced (the magazine will now be published quarterly) in order to allow the editorial team to increase the output of online content. Not only will we be producing more daily news stories, but we will be publishing features, interv ...

Posted 25 February 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: The Guardian, CEO, Information Security

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The Low-down on the Booth Babe Crack-down

This week, Reed Exhibitions, organisers of the Infosecurity Europe event, announced changes to their Ts and Cs that outlaw the use of ‘booth babes’ (more formally known as scantily clad women) to attract foot traffic to their booth. (The use of the word ‘attract’ was not acci ...

Posted 20 February 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: Infosecurity Europe, Booth Babe, Infosec, Reed Exhibitions

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ISSA European Conference: A talk from Right Honorurable David Davis, MP

I attended the ISSA European Conference last week, and was pleasantly surprised by a fantastic speaker line-up and some excellent content. The agenda was kicked off by Right Honourable David Davis, MP House of Commons, UK Parliament, who joked that his talk would completely defy that of what was ou ...

Posted 14 February 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: MP, Privacy, Stuxnet, ISSA, Infosecurity

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RSA: The Light at the End of the Tunnel

I’m a great sufferer of the January blues and associate them with many negative connotations. However, the one bit of sunshine at the end of the tunnel every January is the imminent RSA Conference in San Francisco. It doesn’t take a genius to work out why the promise of a week in my fav ...

Posted 11 January 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

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1.5 Factor Authentication: Myth or Fact?

Last week, I met with Steven Hope, technical director at Winfrasoft, a multi-factor authentication company. As Hope was introducing me to the company and their suite of products, he listed everything they offer: “PINgrid, PINphrase and PINpass which deliver strong and affordable two-fac ...

Posted 20 December 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: Authentication , Winfrasoft , Two-factor , PINgrid

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CipherCloud: Expansion into Europe, Investment, and The Cost of a Data Breach

The week that CipherCloud announced it had received $30 million in new funding from Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, I sat down to lunch with their CEO, Pravin Kothari, Richard Olver, Regional Director of EMEA, and Dev Ghoshal, Senior Vice President, ...

Posted 20 December 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

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An Interview with Jamie Pearce, WatchGuard Technologies

During a lovely lunch at Kettners with WatchGuard’s UK & Ireland regional sales manager, Jamie Pearce, we talked UTM performance issues, 2013 threats, and the advantages of an industry rich in M&A… UTM (Unified Threat Management), says Pearce, is “having a resurgence&rdqu ...

Posted 14 December 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: WatchGuard, UTM, Infosecurity

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An Interview with Aidan Simister, Netwrix

I recently met with Aidan Simister, country manager, UK & Ireland, NetWrix, at the W hotel in Leicester Square. You may not be familiar with NetWrix if you are UK-based, which Simister blames on the fact that they are “terrible at telling people what we do, but brilliant at writing tools& ...

Posted 12 December 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: Auditing, NetWrix, Compliance

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It’s a Man’s Man’s World

So, I should probably begin with a disclaimer. I am a woman working in the infosecurity industry, which arguably makes me biased, but certainly puts me in a position to comment on this much-debated topic: the lack of women in information security. At the RSA Europe conference in October 2012, ...

Posted 10 December 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: information, security, woman, industry

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An Interview with Bernard Parsons, CEO, BeCrypt…

In the wonderfully opulent setting of the Savoy hotel, London, I recently met with the co-founder and CEO of BeCrypt, Bernard Parsons, and his colleague Keith Ricketts, head of marketing. Bernard Parsons isn’t your typical CEO. He’s quiet and understated but what he does say is intellig ...

Posted 26 November 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: BeCrypt, encryption, parsons, government , CEO

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A chat with Wolfgang Kandek, CTO, Qualys…

On November 8th, I attended the Qualys Security Conference 2012 at the Berkeley hotel in London. At the end of the day, I was lucky enough to catch up with Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys. The Future of Technology We talked about the future of technology and what it will mean for the security indu ...

Posted 26 November 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: Qualys, Wolfgang, Kandek, Skills Gap, Information , Security

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An Interview with ForgeRock…

Last week, I met with Daniel Raskin, VP marketing at ForgeRock, and John Barco, director of product marketing. You may not have heard of ForgeRock, I hadn’t either, but that’s because they’ve launched quietly, building up their customer base before investing in a marketing push wh ...

Posted 21 November 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: ForgeRock, Identity, Perimeter , Stack, Open-source, Sun Microsystems

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Lunch with Cryptography Research

On Friday, I had lunch with Ken Warren, marketing director, Cryptography Research (CRI). There was no topic agenda (just the way I like it) and we had an informal and enjoyable lunch, with conversation dancing around social networking, consumerisation, and some pretty serious concerns around count ...

Posted 21 August 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: cryptography , research, smartcards, Apple, counterfeit

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