Category: Advent IM Blog

• by Anthony Orjally
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Policing Partners publicly commit to Improve Security within UK Police UK Police forces are a huge target for security attacks, given their collation of highly sensitive information. The main reason for information security breaches is human error, therefore all roles within a Police force need to understand their security responsibilities and the risks associated with […]

• by Anthony Orjally
• Advent IM Blog

Advent IM has a longstanding relationship with the UK Government and has been a trusted security consultancy provider to many Government departments over its twenty-year history.  MySecurityManager – Solving the problem: Interim role of Information Security Manager for a Government Body  Our client was already engaged with us for years, mostly for accreditation work. However, […]

• by Anthony Orjally
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Hello everyone, here’s a free £50! We’ll just take your personal information in return 🙂 This is what Chinese organisation Temu are doing, and masses of people are falling for it. Who are Temu? Temu are an online market place that offer heavily discounted prices for all goods. They originate from China, with their platform […]

• by Ellie Hurst
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We are a small business and it is not often we wave someone off to retirement. We have found ourselves reflecting, as a company as well as individuals, on our time with Derek Willins and decided to compile some of our memorable, funny, useful or sentimental moments here. “I’d quite like to be rather sincere […]

• by Ellie Hurst
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This is a bittersweet week for us at Advent IM as our own Head of Client Development, Derek Willins, retires. There can be no doubt of his contribution to Advent IM and to security and we will miss his insight, curiosity and collegiate approach that so exemplifies our core values. Derek kindly wrote a post […]

• by Ellie Hurst
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A post from our MD, Mike Gillespie, on the recent outage impacts and lessons in resilience IT-based outages affecting McDonald’s, Sainsbury’s and Tesco were widely reported last weekend (15th and 16th March 2024), with many confused and angry customers taking to social media to warn others or make contact with the brands, seeking more information. […]

• by Anthony Orjally
• Advent IM Blog

Dating apps are increasing in popularity year by year, which means that there’s more people available for scammers to target. But first and foremost, what is a romance scam? It is a type of scam that involves a fraudster building a (false) personal relationship with their victim, only to ask them for money – to […]

• by Anthony Orjally
• Advent IM Blog

Using the internet can be an amazing thing… but can also be dangerous. As a newcomer in security, I’ve been able to understand that my previous actions left me at risk of my data being available to anyone! For Safer Internet Day, this blog will cover how you can have not just a safer day, […]

• by Anthony Orjally
• Advent IM Blog

In this year’s edition from Consciously Incompetent Productions, we’re excited to bring to you Barking Mad! A spin off from Breaking Bad, as we discuss all things Data Protection in a light hearted but serious way.   Click Here to watch the full video!

• by Anthony Orjally
• Advent IM Blog

  Media Contact: Miek Gillespie  (0) 121 559 6699, bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 01.02.24 Human Error Ranks No.1 Reason for Security Breaches   Just Less than One Fifth of UK Businesses Provide Security Training to Prevent Data Breaches…   Recent research shows that the cost of a data breach is sky rocketing, year-by-year, and 2024 will be […]