Category: Advent IM Blog

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Thanks to Chris Cope for this look at Festive scams. Its that time of year when we all spend plenty of money buying presents for loved ones and, in a trend that increases year on year, many of these transactions are carried out online.  Online transactions are worth millions of pounds to retailers and its […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

A review of the news of the BoM attack  from Security Consultant, Chris Cope. Or more precisely, why would anyone want to hack the Australian met office?  Well, its happened and officials are quick to announce that the damage will take millions of dollars to fix and that China was responsible for the hack.  Its […]