Stephen Scott

Our IT Security expert Stephen Scott will be a guest speaker at the IASA Ireland Chapter Event: ‘IT Security - Protect Your Business from Attack.’ Stephen brings an excellent depth of knowledge and a wealth of experience to this informative event

Stephen will give brief observations on each of the following predictions for 2015:
 How Data Protection Will Move From Being “High On” to “Top Of” Boardroom Agendas
 Medical Matters – Why booming Black Market for Personal Medical Data will Spur Mass Outrage
 The growth in the Cyber Insurance Market
 The dash to Make Payment Facilities Safe – Organisations will Scramble to Meet Compliance with New Payment Card Industry Standard (PCI DSS) V3.0.
 Sophisticated Whaling Scams on… Show more

Stephen will give brief observations on each of the following predictions for 2015:
 How Data Protection Will Move From Being “High On” to “Top Of” Boardroom Agendas
 Medical Matters – Why booming Black Market for Personal Medical Data will Spur Mass Outrage
 The growth in the Cyber Insurance Market
 The dash to Make Payment Facilities Safe – Organisations will Scramble to Meet Compliance with New Payment Card Industry Standard (PCI DSS) V3.0.
 Sophisticated Whaling Scams on Course to Net the Big Fish
 How Retail Will Look to Point-to-Point-Encryption (P2PE) to Combat Point-of-Sale Malware Show less

Irish businesses may need to go above and beyond the current payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS) to ensure customers of genuine data privacy, security experts have warned.

Article looks at how every business understands the risk of a disastrous event, but not all plan how to overcome them. Espion consultant Stephen Scott adds his expertise to subject saying: “The first essential is getting senior management to buy-in to BCM and backing for a comprehensive plan. It’s all about risk and appropriate investment in preparedness. That’s why we need to establish what, if any, levels of downtime are tolerable, for what functions, and what are the worst case scenarios… Show more

Article looks at how every business understands the risk of a disastrous event, but not all plan how to overcome them. Espion consultant Stephen Scott adds his expertise to subject saying: “The first essential is getting senior management to buy-in to BCM and backing for a comprehensive plan. It’s all about risk and appropriate investment in preparedness. That’s why we need to establish what, if any, levels of downtime are tolerable, for what functions, and what are the worst case scenarios that we have to prepare for. Any real life contingency planning will involve trade-offs between ideal or perfect solutions and practicable ones that are appropriate in investment cost terms. In ICT, that will often affect choices of technology. Risk drives budget.
Sunday Business Post - Connected Magazine Show less

Espion Consultancy Team Lead Stephen Scott, sharing his expertise on how to keep on the right side of the latest version of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), when he addressed an OWASP Chapter event, in Dublin, March 14.