Category: Industry News

News and information from the Advent IM team.

UK gov launches second audit of cyber security labour market

Public and private sector firms will be probed on what security skills they currently lack. The UK government has launched a second audit of the country’s cyber security labour market in an effort to assess how companies across the country are handling the employment and training of IT professionals. Read full story.

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UK Government Staff Lost 500+ Devices Last Year

UK government workers have lost over 500 mobile devices and laptops over the past year, with just a small percentage ever recovered, according to new research from MobileIron. The security vendor issued Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to nine government departments, all but one of which replied. It found that public sector employees managed to […]

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NCSC calls out Microsoft over Dmarc reports

The UK’s cyber security agency has called out Microsoft for seriously undermining global email security by failing to provide crucial reports from its email platforms. Microsoft stopped sending any form of domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance (Dmarc) protocol reports from any of its email platforms in late 2017, according to the latest report by […]

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