Category: Advent IM Blog

• by Ellie Hurst
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Some comment from Mike Gillespie: Not for the first time lately, are we looking at the fall out from a breach that happened well over a year ago, (Dropbox anyone) in the case of the Yahoo event, it is  two years old. Once again we are being told to change our passwords and being reassured that […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Advent IM, MD, Mike Gillespie gives us his thoughts on the ongoing role pastoral care plays, post vetting when it comes to insider threat. People Every business needs them. Every business spends money and time sourcing, training and moulding them. Some businesses even put them through a rigorous vetting system.  But because we are human, our belief […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

A post from Del Brazil, Advent IM Security Consultant. Passwords are supposed to be hard to guess but not hard to remember which in itself is a paradox.  How can you actually have something that is hard to guess and yet be easy enough to remember, let alone have several of them each with a […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

**PRESS RELEASE** Advent IM join G-Cloud 8 Media Contact: Ellie Hurst +44 (0) 121 559 6699, bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 04.08.16 The UK’s leading independent holistic security consultancy today confirmed availability through the UK Government’s G-Cloud 8 framework Advent IM, the UK’s leading independent, holistic security consultancy, announced today it has been accepted onto the UK […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Del Brazil takes a look at the resilience of CNI, specifically our communications networks, after the BT outages. A recent second outage of BT Broadband has raised questions as to whether BT are not only suitable to manage the country’s communications infrastructure but should they be permitted to undertake the role alone? We regularly highlight […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Advent IM Security Consultant, Del Brazil It has been reported recently that health information pertaining to Denmark’s entire population, numbered at approximately 15 million, has been compromised in that unencrypted CDs were received by an unintended/unauthorised recipient. Datatilsynet, Denmark’s Data Protection authority reported that the breach occurred in 2015 and was linked to 2 unencrypted […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Looking at some survey results recently, it struck me how the trend for employing hackers or ex hackers has really taken off. Perhaps more so in the US that the UK but Stateside trends often emerge here.  With this in mind, I asked our consultants for opinions on how this works and what problems may […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Earlier this week, The Times reported on apparent cyber attacks on our rail networks. Advent IM Security Consultant, Chris Cope, gives us his opinion. Hacking attacks against rail infrastructure should come as no surprise. The move to connect industrial control systems to corporate networks has opened up a range of vulnerabilities. Many industrial control systems […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

It is always a treat to get a blog post from Advent IM Director, Julia McCarron and this time Julia has turned her eye to the spate of Ransomware attacks on US hospitals to ask how resilient the NHS is, should it face a similar level of attack. When I hear the word ransom it […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Now the UK has finally had a referendum and is apparently on the path to exit the EU, UK businesses will want to know where they stand on EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). For many, the GDPR was the culmination of a lot of hard work, forward thinking and a genuine desire for an increased robustness in dealing […]