Category: Advent IM Blog

News and information from the Advent IM team.

Leaders Council podcast with Lord Blunkett and Advent IM’s Julia McCarron

**PRESS RELEASE**     Media Contact: Ellie Hurst +44 (0) 121 559 6699, bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 26.08.2020     Julia McCarron from Advent I M appears in The Leaders Council Podcast alongside Lord Blunkett. The Leaders Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is currently in the process of talking to leadership figures from across the […]

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AI, defence and the biggest bullies in the playground – Mike Gillespie posts

“Research has shown that 30 countries want the introduction of an international treaty over such weapons systems, which would be able to select and engage targets without any meaningful human intervention.” From an article by Ian Sale for SkyNews. The ever-increasing desire to march towards automation, utilise Artificial Intelligence and achieve the removal of human […]

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PODCAST: ‘Sophisticated’ attacks with Mike and Craig

Mike Gillespie and Craig Moan discuss the tendency to label every security event as a sophisticated attack and the impact that has on the understanding of both how prevalent serious attacks are and the need for  effective communication skills in security. http://advent-im.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Complex-attacks-v0.1-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

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PODCAST: The one about Ransomware

Ransomware continues to grow but there have been changes over the last couple of years and the success of this type of attack has had an impact on entire cities and public services. Mike and Ellie talk about the impact of ransomware on business supply chains and critical national infrastructure and what effect the pandemic […]

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PODCAST: The State of the Nation State with Phil Ingram MBE

In this episode we chew the fat with Phil Ingram MBE and look at the escalation of nation state activity and how it affects everyone’s every day lives, both digitally through cyber attacks and in real life such as the Salisbury poisonings.   http://advent-im.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Propoganda-and-the-State-of-Nation-State-Activity-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

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Lets talk about some ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber attacks…

Advent IM MD, Mike Gillespie It seems to have become quite popular these days to refer to any attack on infrastructure, especially when it involves Government or Critical Infrastructure, as coming from a ‘sophisticated threat actor’. However, the truth is often that the attack has been facilitated by negligent but accidental internal behaviours, through poor […]

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