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Issue Christmas 2005

Welcome to the special Christmas edition of the Security Watch Newsletter from BH Consulting.

On behalf of all of us here in BH Consulting I would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a secure and prosperous New Year. Below are some of the top stories from our past publications this year and we have also included some other interesting stories.

As part of our Community Support programme BH Consulting is not sending out Christmas cards this year, instead we have donated money to two very worthy charities;

The Central Remedial Clinic, the national centre for the care, treatment and development of children and adults with physical and multiple disabilities. http://www.crc.ie/donations/index.htm

The other is Focus Ireland supporting the homeless throughout Ireland.
http://www.focusireland.ie/htm/how_you_can_help/donation/index.htm.

Both charities do sterling work in helping those less fortunate than ourselves. If you have found our newsletter to be of interest, we ask you to make a donation to either of the above charities. No sum is too small and all is put to excellent use.

Again we wish you, you colleagues and your families a very Happy and Merry Christmas

Brian

ABOUT BH CONSULTING
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ARTICLES
All the Christmas stories in one place;
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39155164,00.htm

Viewing 2005: The year in security;
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39155146,00.htm

The Worst Network Security Horror Stories;
http://nwc.networkingpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=175006305&pgno=1

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security;
http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/index.html

Ernst & Young’s 8th annual Global Information Security Survey;
http://www.ey.com/global/content.nsf/Ireland/Press-Releases-GISS-05

A survey carried out on behalf on the MakeITsecure initiative, http://www.makeitsecure.ie, finds few users know about SpyWare and Phishing;
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single5699

The SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute has recently released its Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities report;
http://www.windowsitpro.com/eContent/securitypartner/index.cfm?action=Article&RD=2752&ED=1&articleid=48550

Statistics from the Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) International User Group and from Ernst & Young indicate the adoption of the BS 7799 information security standard is increasing.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/analysis/2145504/offshoring-pushes-bs7799

WHITE PAPERS

Don't forget to visit our whitepapers page. The following articles are available for free download;

Incident Handling and Management (91 KB)
Business Risks Relating to Email Security (102 KB)
BS 7799 to become ISO 27001 (51 KB)
Developing an Internal Service Level Agreement. (65 KB)
Best Practises for Log Management (2.9 MB)
ITIL and BS 15000 (55 KB)
Computer Security Assurance Checklist (47 KB)
Network Security for the Small to Medium Business (Presentation to the Irish Small Business Server User Group) (494 KB)
Computer Virus Threats and Solutions (83 KB)

FREE SECURITY SCAN
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Alternatively contact us or visit our website to get more details on our risk assessment service.

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