Senior Management Profiles
Espion Directors - Colm Fagan, Jim Lehane, Colman Morrissey and Colm Murphy
Colman Morrissey
Colman Morrissey has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years, and has specialised in Information Security for the past 16 years. Colman has extensive sales and management experience to Director and Board level in Security companies over that time. Colman is the founding Director of Espion Ltd. a company that specialises in security consultancy and distribution of emerging security technologies. Colman founded the Irish Honeynet Project a research project providing hacking figures for the Irish community. Colman also founded the National High Tech Crime Forum, which is currently chaired by the Irish Bankers Federation. Colman has given numerous presentations to seminars, forums and representative groups, and has written extensively on security in the press and in many popular magazine titles. Colman as the Managing Director of Espion and is ultimately responsible for managing and delivering services, training and forensic investigations to our clients.
Jim Lehane
Jim is a co-founder and Director of Sales for Espion having previously had channel development and enterprise sales roles with eircom. Since 2001 Jim has taken primary responsibility for the development of the Espion Distribution Brand and channel programme. Espion distribution is now recognised as the primary value added security distributor in Ireland with a very strong partner channel who recognise and draw on the espion skill base to deliver real value and solutions to their customers. More recently Espion distribution has also successfully launched into wan optimisation, consolidation and enterprise wireless lan solutions.
Jim is charged with driving the distribution side of the business through the introduction of market changing technologies that bring exceptional value to clients and help our channel partners deliver solutions that have a real impact and influence on their clients’ businesses.
Colm Murphy
Colm Murphy, Espion’s Technical Director, is recognised as one of Ireland’s leading IT Security experts. He holds a B.A. (Business and Politics) from Trinity College, and a Post Graduate Diploma from Staffordshire University (IT for Strategic Management). He has worked in the ICT industry since 1996 and has specialised in Information Security since 1998. He has lead and managed a range of information security projects in the public and private sectors in Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines.
Colm has performed over 200 computer based forensic investigations and has led some of the largest electronic discovery projects conducted to date in Ireland. He has presented evidence in the various Irish courts. He has written extensively on Information Security, Digital Forensics and eDiscovery. He is highly regarded in the Industry, invited regularly as an industry speaker and has been interviewed for Radio and TV on many occasions. He was appointed an expert evaluator by the European Commission for the Preparatory Action on Security Research in 2007.
Colm Fagan
Colm Fagan has headed large security projects for numerous Government Departments, Government agencies, Semi-State Bodies and Large Multi-national organisations. For instance, Colm Fagan was the first person in Ireland to deliver Certified Checkpoint Security training (Over 9 years ago). Colm’s is one of Ireland’s most experienced IT Security consultants.
Consultants General Qualifications
Espion’s consultants have gained the following certifications:
- CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
- CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor)
- CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)
- BS7799 (ISO27001) Lead Auditor
- CompTIA Security +
- Certified Checkpoint Security Engineers
- Certified Checkpoint Security Instructor
- Microsoft Certified with a specialisation in Security
- Cisco Certified Network Professionals
- Certified Wireless Security Professional
- Encase Certified Forensics Examiner
- EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker
- EC-Council Certified Forensic Investigator
- Certified Security Testing Professional (CSTP)
- Certified Forensics Investigation Analyst (CFIA)
Over the years Espion’s consultants have received a wide variety of security product related training including, Windows, Unix (Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Red-Hat, IBM AIX), Lotus Notes, Netware, 3 Com, RSA, Mail Marshal, Citrix, WRQ, Hummingbird, F5, Aladdin, Juniper, Netscreen, McAfee, Symantec, Nokia, Trend, SQL, Websense, Surfcontrol, Bluecoat, Portwise, Copperfasten, Vasco, and others.
In addition, Espion’s consultants have received and delivered a variety of vendor neutral training courses, including Ethical Hands on Hacking, Web Application Security, Fundamentals of Security etc. etc. (See Espion’s Security Training Matrix).