The following introduction was originally published in the BCS Information Security Now Magazine, Spring 2011 issue (Volume 5, Issue 3), which was on the topic of Ethical Hacking: “There has been debate and disagreement as to whether the term ethical hacking is correct and appropriate. Adding ethical as a prefix to a word that has [...]

I spoke at the BCS Information Security Specialist Group’s 11th Annual Legal Day, held at the RAF Club, London on Friday 22nd January 2010. My talk was entitled “RIPA: Perception and Practice” and the slides are now available: RIPA: Perception and Practice View more documents from INFOSEC_Maven.

I will be speaking at the BCS Information Security Specialist Group’s 11th Annual Legal Day, being held at the RAF Club, London on Friday 22nd January 2010. My talk is entitled “RIPA: Perception and Practice”, although I was tempted to title it “RIPA: Proportionality, Paranoia and Practice”, and the synopsis is: “There has been much [...]

I was quoted by Computing in an article covering the Communications Data Bill. I was talking about the UK adoption of the EU Data Retention Directive (EU DRD) for Internet data, after an 18 month delay to help ISPs get ready. Would have been nice to have my job title and company name printed correctly [...]

I was quoted by ZDNet in an article covering the Communications Data Bill. I was talking about the UK adoption of the EU Data Retention Directive (EU DRD) and how it affected the current voluntary data retention regime, but the article also covers the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) – although not by name – and [...]