Brian Honan is an independent security consultant based in Dublin, Ireland, and is also the founder and head of IRISSCERT, Ireland's first CERT. He is a Special Advisor to Europol's Cybercrime Centre (EC3), an adjunct lecturer on Information Security in University College Dublin. He is the author of the book ISO 27001 in a Windows Environment and co-author of The CSA Guide to Cloud Computing and The Cloud Security Rules. He is a regular speaker at major industry conferences. In 2013 Brian was awarded SC Magazine Information Security Person of the year for his contribution to the computer security industry.