Category: Advent IM Blog
News and information from the Advent IM team.
It’s Armed Forces Week! #SaluteOurForces
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Visual ©UK MOD Crown Copyright 2020 This is Armed Services Week, leading to Armed Forces Day (AFD) (Saturday 26th Jun) via Reservists Day (Wednesday 23rd) We hope that this week and especially AFD, is a great celebration of those who serve and who have served along with their families and communities. We #SaluteOurForces
Read MoreIt’s #NationalPhishAndChipDay!
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
We have a new home!
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
All our information security consulting services and training continues as normal. Call us on 0121 559 6699 or email us at bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk for details of upcoming training courses, to start your security project or testing, and don’t forget to sign up for our regular newsletter and podcasts.
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A Password methodology for #WorldPassword Day
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Today is a good day to talk about building a great password. Everyone knows we need solid passwords, it is a basic requirement. But one of the things I often hear from people is, ‘it’s all very well telling me to build a good password but what does good look like, and how exactly […]
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Public Sector SIRO Training available to book!
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
The role of the Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) is a key function across all areas of the Public Sector, including NHS, central government, nuclear, councils, NDPB’s and in some cases even suppliers to Public Sectors are required to demonstrate the role. Available dates: May 25, 2021 June 22, 2021 July 20, 2021 August 17, 2021 September […]
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Mike Gillespie │ Security Think Tank: Security culture must underpin vaccine passports
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog Industry News
There are various topics we need to address with regard to any kind of vaccine passport. If we skip those areas, then securing it will become even more challenging and the likelihood for fraud increases. Read via Computer Weekly.
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University of Hertfordshire’s entire IT system offline
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
Online classes are cancelled as every IT system is taken down by the attack Read via ItProPortal.
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PODCAST: The Future of Security Events
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
Ellie Hurst and Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn spoke with Roy Cooper and Liz Lloyd of Security Twenty Events and Professional Security Magazine and Phelim Rowe of CTG Intelligence Events about their experiences of security events in 2020 and early 2021 and how they adapted to continue to offer great events but in a new way. Some horizon […]
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PODCAST: The Future of Security Events
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Ellie Hurst and Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn spoke with Roy Cooper and Liz Lloyd of Security Twenty Events and Professional Security Magazine and Phelim Rowe of CTG Intelligence Events about their experiences of security events in 2020 and early 2021 and how they adapted to continue to offer great events but in a new way. Some horizon […]
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The future: a unified approach to fraud and security.
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
By Derek Willins, Head of Business Development at Advent IM. Fraud (credit card, identity and cyber-fraud) is now the crime that British citizens are most likely to become a victim of. In England, the number of reported fraud crimes against the person were 3.7m, outstripping theft against the person at 3.4m (Office of National Statistics, […]
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