Category: Advent IM Blog
News and information from the Advent IM team.
ISO 22301:2014 Business Continuity Management Systems #BCAW2016
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
A look at the Business Continuity international standard by Del Brazil for Business Continuity Awareness Week The worldwide recognised standard for Business Continuity is ISO 22301:2014 – Business Continuity Management Systems which was preceded by BS 25999 – Business Continuity Management. The ISO 22301 standard clearly provides direction to all businesses/organisations on how to plan, […]
Read MoreBusiness Continuity Testing #BCAW2016 day 3
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Another post from Del Brazil – Advent IM Security Consultant for Business Continuity Awareness Week 2016 The author has recently posted an article about the importance of business continuity to an organisation and how it can help to ensure its survival in the event of a major disruptive event. All business continuity plans must be […]
Read MoreBusiness Continuity – the real threats, from Del Brazil
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
From Del Brazil, Advent IM Security Consultant – for Business Continuity Awareness Week #BCAW2016 As its Business Continuity Week it seems only logical to start at beginning of the whole Business Continuity process, which is to ask ‘Why do we need Business Continuity?’ Business Continuity is a standard methodology that addresses the critical outputs and […]
Read MoreBusiness Continuity Awareness Week starts today #BCAW2016
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Business Continuity Awareness Week is upon us and we wanted to contribute to this key business area awareness raising for a few reasons. Firstly, we know how important it is because all businesses suffer from unintended events (or the odd intended one too!) that can impact their ability to carry on. Planning for the most […]
Read MoreADVENT IM JOIN UK GOVERNMENT DIGITAL MARKETPLACE, DIGITAL OUTCOMES AND SPECIALISTS FRAMEWORK
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
**PRESS RELEASE** Advent IM today announced it’s availability on the UK Government’s Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework. This framework is for public bodies and agencies to directly procure digital specialists and Advent IM is now available to these bodies for Cyber Security Specialist Consulting services, in addition to the UK G-Cloud framework. G-Cloud has carried […]
Read MoreWorld Password Day!
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
May the 5th is World Password Day and we have a great opportunity to talk to staff and management about passwords, or just think about how we choose and manage your own. We frequently use the same device for work and home and the risks of an insecure password can be exponentially increased by password duplication […]
Read MoreUniversity Cyber Attacks
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Some top security tips that ALL employees can use
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
When it comes to security, one thing is clear, people occasionally do daft things with computers and devices, and they frequently do these daft things at work. They occasionally do malicious things too but it’s mostly just daft. So we can train our employees (including managers and directors) in our procedures and policies and enforce […]
Read MoreNASA hacking?
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
A post on allegations of NASA being hacked from Del Brazil of Advent IM There have been allegations of numerous hacks into the systems controlled or operated by NASA. These have ranged from secret UFO files being accessed, through to drones being infiltrated and subsequently controlled by unauthorised persons. This raises the questions about how secure […]
Read MoreData Protection Day 2016!
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
As it is Data Protection Day, we thought we would take a look at the current state of play when it comes to business impact from data breach and its not pretty reading… With increasing levels of data being collected every year, now more than ever we need to ensure very high quality processes and […]
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