Category: Advent IM Blog

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Many organisations have taken advantage, quite rightly, of the furlough scheme. In their absence, some of their mail will have been filtered and collected by team leaders, managers and other non-furloughed staff. But not all of it and not everyone. We know that cyber criminals have taken advantage of the pandemic and in some style, […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

During our podcast last week, we touched on the relationship between security and business continuity.  The speed with which many organisations and businesses had to shift workforces to homeworking exposed a wide range of unexplored vulnerabilities, at least for many. Whilst IT shortages or loss  of IT has been very high on the Business Continuity […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

NHS organisations and other public sector bodies, including emergency services, local authorities and schools, will be able to access cyber security services, including risk management, incident response and recovery, consultancy and personnel, from a range of 25 suppliers through the Cyber Security Services Framework, which launches today. Read the story by Alex Scoxton in Computing View the Procurement […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

We hope you enjoy any VE Day celebrations you may have planned. We know they probably won’t be like other years and we know they won’t be what you had in mind but we hope you enjoy them all the same and reflect on the 75 years since the end of WW2. Best wishes from […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Here is the solution to yesterday’s teabreak wordsearch. You may have noticed that one of the words could be found in multiple places. Well that’s IT for you; gets everywhere! Click here for solution pdf.

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Based on yesterday’s #5MinSecurityRead. Twenty words to find, click to download pdf version. We will publish the solution tomorrow.    

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

According to  ISC², almost half of security professionals (47%) report that they have been redeployed for a range of mostly IT  and mobile device deployment functions and 80% have reported a change of some kind to their role during the pandemic crisis, so far. Most (90%) are now working remotely, though for many this will […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

A valuable exploration of our actual understanding and commitment to culture change, and as with so many things, definitions are vital or we stray into important concepts becoming buzzwords… Over to Derek Willins, Head of Client Development. “What we need is culture change”. Really? Every week I hear or see the phrase, “we need a […]