News and information from the Advent IM team.
We still need to remember insider threat
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
We still need to remember insider threat a blog by Ellie Hurst, Head of Marcomms and Media @ Advent IM News reaches us every day of hacks, third party security breaches, and supply chain vulnerability exploitations that impact entire business ecosystems. But we must never forget some of the most challenging threats can come from […]
Read MoreHow managed threat hunting helps bust malicious insiders
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Managed threat hunting services can help take some of the pressure off security operations centres and help ensure potential breaches don’t escalate into something far worse. We explore one such case with a happy ending. Read story by Alex Scroxton in Compter Weekly
Read MoreThe Insider that rarely gets questioned…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Insider Threat certainly isn’t going away, is it? Reading the continual survey results and news items I see published, it will still be an issue for a long time to come. We know that a lot of the Risk that Insiders bring can be mitigated with good policy and process combined with tech that is fit for purpose. But […]
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BLOG: Policing and The Need for Information Management
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- General
I write this as someone with first-hand experience in information security and its management and also experience in Policing, having served part of my career as a frontline Police Constable; this combination allows me to clearly observe the lack of information management within policing. In 2007, the movie Hot Fuzz starring Simon Pegg and Nick […]
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Weekend Wisdom 29/07: British Ex-Forces in Business Awards, Uber Breach Cover Up
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Your favorite weekly round-up of Security News and Advent IM media. In HUGE Advent IM news, we are delighted to announce that not one, but two of our team members have made the shortlist for the ‘British Ex-Forces in Business Awards, 2022’, the world’s largest celebration of veterans in a second career for the second […]
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National Lottery Data Breach – some thoughts from Leighton Hughes
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
A post from Leighton Hughes I read a few days ago about the latest information security breach, that seems to be an ever-common appearance in today’s news, but this time it’s not Police related, who do seem to be the front runners of having these types of Data breaches, but this occasion it’s the National […]
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Blasé directors put business data at risk
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Senior employees and company directors are putting their businesses and careers at grave risk with cavalier and blasé attitudes to cyber security, according to new statistics on insider threats produced by Egress. Its figures revealed that 78% of directors have intentionally shared data against company policy in the past 12 months, compared with just 10% […]
Read More2018, what actually happened then?
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
You know we love to talk predictions at this time of year, as well as take a look over the shoulder at what happened… Mike Gillespie – Advent IM Co Founder Predicted and did not happen – GDPR did not cause the end of the world/humanity. Not predicted- that December would see the news of […]
Read More#Security predictions for 2018 from the Advent IM Team
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Its that time of year. We look back over our shoulder and use the previous 12 months to try and work out what we can expect in the coming 12 months. Sometimes we get it horribly right, such as our prediction of the meteoric rise in ransomware and also that it would start to impact […]
Read MoreTrust Nothing, Question Everything… #socialengineering
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
IFSEC Global – Our very own Steve Foley talking about the threats we face from social engineering and the part it plays in insider threat to our organisational security. Read it here.
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