Category: Advent IM Blog
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Advent IM join the Cyber Security Procurement Framework
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
NHS organisations and other public sector bodies, including emergency services, local authorities and schools, will be able to access cyber security services, including risk management, incident response and recovery, consultancy and personnel, from a range of 25 suppliers through the Cyber Security Services Framework, which launches today. Read the story by Alex Scoxton in Computing View the Procurement […]
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VE Day
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
We hope you enjoy any VE Day celebrations you may have planned. We know they probably won’t be like other years and we know they won’t be what you had in mind but we hope you enjoy them all the same and reflect on the 75 years since the end of WW2. Best wishes from […]
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May the Fourth Be With You…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Teabreak Wordsearch solutions
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Here is the solution to yesterday’s teabreak wordsearch. You may have noticed that one of the words could be found in multiple places. Well that’s IT for you; gets everywhere! Click here for solution pdf.
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Teabreak Security Wordsearch
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Based on yesterday’s #5MinSecurityRead. Twenty words to find, click to download pdf version. We will publish the solution tomorrow.
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#5MinSecurityRead Redeployed security staff, is this the time?
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
According to ISC², almost half of security professionals (47%) report that they have been redeployed for a range of mostly IT and mobile device deployment functions and 80% have reported a change of some kind to their role during the pandemic crisis, so far. Most (90%) are now working remotely, though for many this will […]
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#5MinSecrityRead: “What we need is culture change”. Really?
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
A valuable exploration of our actual understanding and commitment to culture change, and as with so many things, definitions are vital or we stray into important concepts becoming buzzwords… Over to Derek Willins, Head of Client Development. “What we need is culture change”. Really? Every week I hear or see the phrase, “we need a […]
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#5MinSecurityRead Care and kindness- #security tools
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
If there is one thing that has given me hope during this lockdown period, it has been the emergence of a more human face to business. I have attended a couple of webinars, spoken on some panels and read a lot of content and a great deal of human care and concern has been evident. […]
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#5minSecurityread: Ransomware. The only solution.
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Thank you to Head of Client Development, Derek Willins for this 5 minute read One day you realise with horror that your files and computers have been blocked. Nothing works. A message appears, it says everything is encrypted, and you have 2 days to pay a ransom in bitcoin before it deletes everything. What do […]
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#5minSecurityread: The prison of toxic assumptions.
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
A five minute read from one of the team Thank you to our Head of Client Development, Derek Willins The COVID -19 lockdown has reminded me about something I learned a few years ago. It was the concept of toxic assumptions. They are effectively thinking boundaries (or firewalls if you like) that create organisational inertia […]
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