Category: Advent IM Blog

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Cybercrime’s Hidden Cost: The Mental Health Impact on Employees and How a Just Culture Limits Harm

Cybercrime doesn’t just drain budgets and stall operations. It also quietly erodes confidence, sleep, and trust, especially for the person who clicked, uploaded, or approved something that later became the pivot point for an incident. In security programmes, we often track mean time to detect and mean time to recover. We rarely track the human […]

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Third-Party Risk: When Ransomware Walks in Through the Side Door

The Collins Aerospace incident is another reminder that third-party risk is no longer an abstract concept; it is one of the most common ways attackers get inside. In this case, the compromise wasn’t a direct assault on an enterprise perimeter but a ransomware attack that entered via the supply chain. Not only was data disrupted, […]

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Red teaming the walls: physical security testing for UK data centres — governance, resilience and commercial edge

Data centres are more than racks and power circuits; they are socio-technical hubs where people, plant and policy must all work together. That’s why physical security red teaming — an authorised, realistic simulation of attacks on buildings, personnel and procedures — is one of the most efficient ways to turn security controls into boardroom confidence […]

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Why Third-Party Data Breaches Are a Growing Threat in UK Businesses — And What You Can Do About It

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month — a great time to think about not just your own systems, but the security of all the parties you depend on. Recent incidents show that third-party breaches are more than theoretical risks — they’re happening now, and hitting UK organisations hard. What’s going on now Here are some real […]

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Cyber Insurance: Why Pay-outs Can Be Refused

Many organisations see cyber insurance as a financial safety net when a data breach or ransomware attack occurs. But cover only works if the policy conditions are met. Cyber insurers are under pressure from the growing volume and cost of claims, and they respond by enforcing their terms very closely. A common reason for refusal […]

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AI meets concrete: what the US–UK tech pact means for UK data centres

The diplomatic choreography of the recent presidential visit to the UK landed more than photo-ops. The Tech Prosperity Deal signals accelerated AI build-outs in the UK—cloud capacity, GPU clusters, and new DC footprints. Nvidia’s ~120k-GPU pledge alone will materially influence power and cooling plans; Microsoft and others are lining up parallel infrastructure spend. Expect planning […]

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Third-party breaches and the data-centre supply chain: where liability really lives

It’s not the bullet you hear that gets you—it’s the ricochet from someone else’s range. The last two years turned “indirect breach” into the main show: MOVEit’s zero-day turned a file-transfer utility into an exfiltration engine; Snowflake-linked compromises hinged on reused credentials and weak contractor security; Okta’s support-portal compromise became a lesson in token hygiene […]

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Security in Education: Insights from Mike Gillespie

What does “security” really mean in schools, colleges and universities today? Mike Gillespie of Advent IM shares his thoughts on how educational institutions can balance openness, safety and privacy in this newly published piece in Professional Security Magazine. Below is a short summary and a few key takeaways — click through to read the full […]

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