Brian Honan is recognized as an industry expert on information security, in particular the ISO27001 information security standard and incident response, and has addressed a number of major conferences relating to the management and securing of information technology.

An independent consultant based in Dublin, Ireland, Brian provides consulting services to clients in various industry segments and his work also includes advising various Government security agencies and the European Commission. Brian also established Ireland’s first ever Computer Security Incident Response Team.

Brian is author of the book “ISO 27001 in a Windows Environment” (http://www.itgovernance.co.uk/products/2207), a regular blogger on matters relating to information security and data protection, has also had a number of technical papers published and has been technical editor and reviewer of a number of industry-recognized publications. Brian is also the European editor for the SANS Institute’s SANS NewsBites, a semi-weekly electronic newsletter.

He is a member of the Information Systems Security Association, Irish Information Security Forum, Information Systems Audit and Control Association and a member of the Irish Computer Society.

You may follow Brian Honan on http://twitter.com/brianhonan

Contributing chapters 

Good habits will keep you out of bad trouble. ISO27001 and the Cloud.
Incident management helps you to keep control of what is going on.