During the first week of September, the Irish chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA Ireland) is hosting a half-day afternoon seminar with two key speakers.
The first of these, Marc Dacier, is a professor in the Corporate Communications Department at the Eurecom Institute in France. His research and teaching interests include computer and network security, intrusion detection, network and system management. “He has been doing some great research in the area of honeypots, studying the way attackers probe systems and, in particular, looking at patterns in the apparently random scanning that we all see on the Internet,” said Owen O’Connor, vice president and co-founder of ISSA Ireland. “Over the years, a lot of people have become jaded with the idea of honeypots – a lot of noise and not a lot of substance – but Marc’s work is genuinely novel and interesting and is sure to make a good ISSA topic.”
The second speaker is Ian Mann, managing director of Bradford-based IT security consultancy ECSC, and an expert in social engineering, the technique of eliciting sensitive information from unknown victims. “Ian will be presenting on this human side of security, which of course can bypass any technical measures taken to protect information,” said O’Connor. “This should also be a great presentation and a nice break from more technical topics.”
Information about the venue and the date of the event is available at www.issaireland.org.
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