Category: Advent IM Blog

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Julia McCarron reflects on the news that regulators are almost at the point of requiring major financial services companies to participate in a cyber security testing programme, according to the Bank of England. It was nice to see the Bank of England talking about cyber security recently, and the importance it sees in testing awareness and resilience […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Julia McCarron, Advent IM Director, looks at the British Gas breach that saw customer details published online and the energy giant claiming they had not been breached and the details must have come from elsewhere… So let’s get this straight. The email addresses and passwords definitely belonged to British Gas customers? Tick. They definitely accessed British […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Advent IM Director, Julia McCarron has turned her eye to the M&S security breach… Well as our Marcomms Manager, Ellie superbly put it, “This isn’t just poor security, this is M&S poor security”. The brand synonymous with quality has let the side down following what it claims was an internal system glitch that caused M&S online account […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

A nuclear power plant worker in Scotland has been escorted from  EDF’s West Kilbride premises and the police called, after allegedly viewing bomb-making websites whilst at work.  The full story is here. Some comment from Advent IM DIrector, Julia McCarron. Trying to find out how to build a bomb whilst working on-site at a nuclear […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Advent IM Security Consultant Del Brazil, gives us his thoughts on the Aviva data breach. For the second time in less than two years Aviva have reported a data breach in which customer data has been released to person(s) unknown.  It is unclear at this time as to whether it a procedural issue, a technical misconfiguration […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

A review from Advent IM Security Consultant, Chris Cope. The TalkTalk hack has left another major UK business reeling from a cyber attack and customers angry as, once again, there is a possibility that sensitive information is now in the public domain.  The telecommunications company decided to take its own website offline on Wednesday following […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

We are halfway through Get Safe Online Week and although we are generally business-focused, we felt it was very important to get involved and to issue some advice that everyone can use. So we have some Personal User and some Business User advice below for you, Courtesy of Del Brazil, Advent IM Security Consultant. #GetSafeOnlineWeek Here in […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Insider Threat certainly isn’t going away, is it? Reading the continual survey results and news items I see published, it will still be an issue for a long time to come. We know that a lot of the Risk that Insiders bring can be mitigated with good policy and process combined with tech that is fit for purpose. But […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

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• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

European Court of Justice has ruled that transatlantic data sharing agreement is invalid. What does this mean for UK businesses that utilise US datacentres or Cloud services? Advent IM Director Mike Gillespie, “There are issues arising from this ruling that require the urgent attention of UK businesses and they need to be aware of the […]