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• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Advent IM News General

Today is the day we re launched our youtube chanel! The first video is live and this video discusses the ICO and how to avoid becoming a number in the ICO statistics This video is part of our #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth 8 part short video series to mark Cyber Security Awareness Month 2021 and coincide with our […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Cyber Security Awareness month seemed like the perfect time to re-launch our YouTube channel with some new content and more security conversations than ever before. Join us for some opinion and best practice advice throughout October. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit notifications so you catch everything. It all starts on Monday 4th October

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

A spate of high-profile cyber attacks has highlighted the criticality of supply chain security and put new pressures on security leaders. How can we ensure that cyber security remains robust down the full length of supply chains? From CloudHopper to SolarWinds, businesses have seen email fraud and account compromise bring down entire systems. Most worryingly […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Researchers asked staff working in healthcare about the impact of cyberattacks – and the findings are worrying. Ransomware attacks against hospitals are having direct consequences for patient care as a result of the reduced availability of systems and services when cyber criminals encrypt networks. According to a survey of healthcare organisations, ransomware attacks have resulted […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

A second email data breach has been uncovered at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the team responsible for relocating Afghan allies to the UK. The BBC reported that dozens of people who may be eligible to come to the UK under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (Arap) were mistakenly copied into an email […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has launched an investigation into a data breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces. More than 250 people seeking relocation to the UK – many of whom are in hiding – were mistakenly copied into an email from the Ministry of Defence. Their […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

Its been a busy 2 weeks at Advent let us catch you up! We had an amazing 2 days at The Security Event 2021. Day 1 we had Ellie Hurst presenting on Critical National Infrastructure and Ransomware Threats, followed by a panel on Major Projects & Emerging Technologies; Addressing threats with new technologies and legacy infrastructure. Day 2 […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

On average, new employees can access about six million corporate documents on their first day on the job, a new report has claimed, based on an analysis of four billion files across 50 different organizations. Problem is often further compounded by poor active directory hygiene. Read via TechRadar  

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Scam text messages are reaching pandemic proportions, thanks in part to the pandemic The volume of scam text messages – commonly known as smishing scams – sent to UK mobile customers during the first six months of 2021 grew by close to 700% compared with the last six months of 2020, according to new data […]