Category: Advent IM Blog

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog Advent IM News General Industry News

As this #DataProtectionDay comes to a close for us, we hope you have enjoyed all the content; the film, the short wisdom breaks and the infographic. If you haven’t seen CISO, In Security No One Can Hear You Scream, yet, please do… and remember it’s message is serious even if we are delivering with tongues […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog Advent IM News General

We managed to catch up with the ever busy MD, Mike and he had a few good answers for us this #DataProtectionDay.. The wisdom and experience is all his, the background ambience comes from the CIISec Charter celebration last week, where Mike, Derek and Ellie joined in the celebration of our Institute (for we are […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog Advent IM News General Industry News

Yes, Data Protection Day 2020 is finally here and with it comes the latest Consciously Incompetent Production from Coombswood Studios; “CISO, In Security No One Can Hear you Scream”. Enjoy a bit of fun with a very serious message about #DataProtection…  click  

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Advent IM Blog

Last night the Advent team attended the celebration for the Charted Institute of Information Security, the only information security institute to have been granted Royal Charter Status. The charter is confirmation of how important information security is not only to business but to society. We as corporate members were delighted to attend, to show our […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Thank you very much to Michelle Horton, an Advent IM Security Consultant for sharing her phishing experiences with us here… Recently, I was the subject of an attempted phishing attack. I thought, doing what I do for a living, I would be a bit more savvy and notice it a bit quicker. But the realisation […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Advent IM Blog

Blog Post by Advent IM Security Consultant, Craig Moan. What happened? On the 31st of December 2019, as the world looked forward to welcoming a new decade, Travelex fell victim to a type of cyber-attack that very much came to prominence in the outgoing decade… Ransomware, and as I write this blog 20 days later […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Advent IM Blog

“A failure to do anything could well be catastrophic and result in not just national, but international carnage on a scale never seen before.” Issue 5 out NOW, Available to read and download for FREE: The Professional Security Officer  Mike Gillespie and Ellie Hurst are delighted to continue their work with The Professional Security Officer […]