Category: Advent IM Blog

News and information from the Advent IM team.

Advent IM celebrating with IISP

Dave Wharton and Ellie Hurst were delighted to represent Advent IM as Gold Sponsors at the IISP 10th Anniversary celebrations, aboard HQS Wellington this month. It was great to review the progress and evolution of the Institute and exciting to hear the future direction for the organisation and its members. The venue was certainly well chosen […]

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Advent IM announce its “Cyber for the C-Suite” breakfast seminar

**PRESS RELEASE** Media Contact: Ellie Hurst +44 (0) 121 559 6699, bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 17.10.16   Advent IM, the UKs leading holistic security consultancy, today announced a Cyber Security Awareness seminar, exclusively for Business Leaders and Senior Board Directors. A breakfast seminar created exclusively for Business Leaders and Senior Board members seeking guidance on cyber […]

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Advent IM Gold Sponsor for IISP 10th Anniversary

**PRESS RELEASE**     Media Contact: Ellie Hurst +44 (0) 121 559 6699, bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 06 October 2016 Advent IM helps celebrate IISP’s 10th anniversary    The Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) celebrates a ten year anniversary in October and Advent IM Ltd are joining the celebrations as Gold Sponsors of the commemorative event. […]

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Yahoo breach – two years on…

Some comment from Mike Gillespie: Not for the first time lately, are we looking at the fall out from a breach that happened well over a year ago, (Dropbox anyone) in the case of the Yahoo event, it is  two years old. Once again we are being told to change our passwords and being reassured that […]

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The importance of pastoral care – guest post from Mike Gillespie

Advent IM, MD, Mike Gillespie gives us his thoughts on the ongoing role pastoral care plays, post vetting when it comes to insider threat. People Every business needs them. Every business spends money and time sourcing, training and moulding them. Some businesses even put them through a rigorous vetting system.  But because we are human, our belief […]

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How safe is your Password?

A post from Del Brazil, Advent IM Security Consultant. Passwords are supposed to be hard to guess but not hard to remember which in itself is a paradox.  How can you actually have something that is hard to guess and yet be easy enough to remember, let alone have several of them each with a […]

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Advent IM accepted on UK Government’s G-Cloud 8

**PRESS RELEASE** Advent IM join G-Cloud 8 Media Contact: Ellie Hurst +44 (0) 121 559 6699, bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 04.08.16 The UK’s leading independent holistic security consultancy today confirmed availability through the UK Government’s G-Cloud 8 framework Advent IM, the UK’s leading independent, holistic security consultancy, announced today it has been accepted onto the UK […]

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Security of Critical National Infrastructure – BT Service

Del Brazil takes a look at the resilience of CNI, specifically our communications networks, after the BT outages. A recent second outage of BT Broadband has raised questions as to whether BT are not only suitable to manage the country’s communications infrastructure but should they be permitted to undertake the role alone? We regularly highlight […]

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Denmark’s Unencrypted Health Information Breach

Advent IM Security Consultant, Del Brazil It has been reported recently that health information pertaining to Denmark’s entire population, numbered at approximately 15 million, has been compromised in that unencrypted CDs were received by an unintended/unauthorised recipient. Datatilsynet, Denmark’s Data Protection authority reported that the breach occurred in 2015 and was linked to 2 unencrypted […]

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