On Friday, I handed over the prize of a Toshiba Tablet PC to the Ireland Gatekeeper Competition winner - Jason Guy.  The Gatekeeper was a security competition that tested the contestants knowledge of security issues. It was run in 19 countries throughout Europe during June. Each day during the competition, a muliple choice question  was posted on the Gatekeeper site. The contestant then had a limited time to answer the question and bonus points were awarded fow how quickly they answered it. The final and twentieth question was open ended and the answer judged by a panel of security experts. Jason, who works for IBM, scored the highest out of the 120 Irish contestants and was 330 (out of his total of ~ 3600) points ahead of his nearest rival. Jason's entry was then put up against the other winning contestants throughout Europe. The final winner though was a guy from Poland who was only 90 points ahead of Jason. The top 50 from Ireland will all recieve free magazine subscriptions to Win IT Pro Magazine - if they registered their details.

So is Jason Ireland's top security expert? He doesn't claim to be so perhaps the others were too shy to enter.

Mike