Category: General

News and information from the Advent IM team.

Another date added for Public Sector SIRO course

Due to high demand, we have had to add another date to our Public Sector Senior Information Risk Owner course, Sept 16th 2020. If you have missed out on the previous course dates, please do not delay booking this date because we do not want you to be disappointed. Details of the course are here.

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Think beyond tick-box compliance

“When it comes to compliance with the GDPR and the UK’s updated Data Protection Act (DPA), Mike Gillespie, managing director and co-founder of independent security consultancy Advent IM, says no information security professional should be driving the conversation through dialogue about potential fines. In his experience, this is both defeatist and counter-productive when dealing with […]

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Advent IM is going to SECURITY TWENTY 20 #Sectwenty20

Professional Security Magazine is pleased to bring you Security TWENTY 20 Birmingham Conference and Exhibition. The Conference is aimed at end users, purchasers and those who specify security products and will update attendees on the latest developments in the security sector. Whether you are in corporate security, local government CCTV or retail loss prevention we aim to get […]

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Catching up with Mike… #DPD20

We managed to catch up with the ever busy MD, Mike and he had a few good answers for us this #DataProtectionDay.. The wisdom and experience is all his, the background ambience comes from the CIISec Charter celebration last week, where Mike, Derek and Ellie joined in the celebration of our Institute (for we are […]

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