Category: Advent IM Blog
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Cyber (Information) security challenges that face Solicitors (and any other type of law firms)
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Affinity Gaming and Trustwave legal action
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
A post from Chris Cope CISM, CISSP, MInstISP, CESG Certified Professional, PCBCM, ISO27001 Lead Auditor and Advent IM Security Consultant It had to happen at some point; a cyber security company is being sued by a customer for not delivering the goods. Las Vegas based Affinity gaming has initiated legal proceedings against Chicago firm Trustwave for making […]
Read MoreCyber Everything & PCI DSS – The Forgotten Standard?
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Senior Security Consultant for Advent IM and PCI-DSS expert, Mark Jones gives us his thoughts on the current awareness of this important payment industry standard. In the current information security climate where everything has ‘cyber’ prefixing the topic e.g. cybersecurity, cyber risk, cyber threats and the list goes on, is it possible organisations have forgotten […]
Read MoreIncident Management – an explanation and example
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Advent IM Security Consultant, Del Brazil, offers some guidance on best practice in Incident Management. Incident Management is defined by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is ‘To restore normal service operation as quickly as possible and minimise the impact on business operations, thus ensuring that agreed levels of service are maintained.’ Although this definition is […]
Read MoreInternet Explorer: Jan 12th will bring some changes…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
A post from Advent IM Security Consultant, Chris Cope. Do you use Microsoft Internet Explorer? Are you using a version of Windows older than 8.1? If the answer to these questions is yes ,or even don’t know, then you need to keep on reading. On 12 January 2016, Microsoft will only provide security updates to […]
Read MoreGot a Drone for Christmas? Don’t forget Registration and Regulation
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Whilst trying to contain my disappointment at not getting Millennium Falcon drone in my stocking, I asked Advent IM Security Consultant, Del Brazil, what the implications are for those of us who do have drones, Star Wars based or not… Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) As Christmas has been and gone many of us will now […]
Read MoreThe cyber-buck stops in the boardroom…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Advent IM Security Consultant, Del Brazil gives us his view of some of the comments and take-outs that ALL boards need to be aware of, following Dido Harding’s appearance before a parliamentary committee on the TalkTalk Breach. The TalkTalk security breach continues to roll on with the TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding telling a parliamentary committee […]
Read MoreRound-up: Top posts of 2015
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
2015 is almost over and we have been pleased and delighted to welcome many new followers and contributors to the Advent IM Holistic Security blog. It’s hard to wade through all the content but we thought it would be nice to present you with a list of some of our most popular posts this year, by […]
Read MoreTalkTalk advised not to talktalk about their breach?
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
According the International Business Times, the Metropolitan Police advised TalkTalk not to discuss their breach. (you can read the article here) Here, in conversation on the topic , is Advent IM Directors, Julia McCarron and Mike Gillespie and Security Consultant, Chris Cope. “This is interesting as it shows the 2 different priorities at work. For […]
Read MoreSecurity Predictions for 2016
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
As 2015 draws to a close, we asked the Advent IM Staff to ponder the challenges for next year. 2015 saw some huge data and security fumbles and millions of people had their personal information exposed as hack after hack revealed not only how much this activity is on the increase, but also how the […]
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