News and information from the Advent IM team.
Staff that work around security may be trying to tell you something..
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
We have talked about insider threat a lot. It seems that we are destined to talk about it a bit more given the amount of data breach and security failure still being driven by insiders. Bupa was subject to a malicious insider recently. An employee with access and a motivation is hard to stop, not […]
Read MoreThe importance of pastoral care – guest post from Mike Gillespie
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
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 […]
Read MoreSome top security tips that ALL employees can use
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
When it comes to security, one thing is clear, people occasionally do daft things with computers and devices, and they frequently do these daft things at work. They occasionally do malicious things too but it’s mostly just daft. So we can train our employees (including managers and directors) in our procedures and policies and enforce […]
Read MoreMorrisons staff suing over data breach. Del Brazil takes a look at what we know and what it might mean.
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Advent IM Security Consultant, Del Brazil discusses some of the questions raised by the legal action from Morrisons employees over a data breach that led to their private information being leaked… It has been reported in Computer Weekly that thousands of Morrisons staff are planning to sue the retailer over a data breach in which a disgruntled former […]
Read MoreAviva 2nd Data Breach
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Advent IM Security Consultant Del Brazil, gives us his thoughts on the Aviva data breach. For the second time in less than two years Aviva have reported a data breach in which customer data has been released to person(s) unknown. It is unclear at this time as to whether it a procedural issue, a technical misconfiguration […]
Read MoreSecurity Predictions for 2020 from the Advent IM Team
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
It’s that time of the year when our consultants get the crystal ball out and make some predictions for the year to come… New Year, Same Problems … Another year and another set of predictions from the Advent IM Team … Mike Gillespie: Organisations will finally take the talking spoon off IT and stop buying […]
Read MoreSecurity Predictions for 2016
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
As 2015 draws to a close, we asked the Advent IM Staff to ponder the challenges for next year. 2015 saw some huge data and security fumbles and millions of people had their personal information exposed as hack after hack revealed not only how much this activity is on the increase, but also how the […]
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