News and information from the Advent IM team.

Recent Retail IT Outages or The Importance of Being Resilient

A post from our MD, Mike Gillespie, on the recent outage impacts and lessons in resilience IT-based outages affecting McDonald’s, Sainsbury’s and Tesco were widely reported last weekend (15th and 16th March 2024), with many confused and angry customers taking to social media to warn others or make contact with the brands, seeking more information. […]

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ICO Bans Serco Leisure’s Use of Facial Recognition for Employee Attendance

Serco Leisure has been ordered to stop using facial recognition technology (FRT) and fingerprint scanning to monitor employee attendance by the UK’s data protection enforcement authority. Read here for the full article. Be sure to check out our video on ‘Employee monitoring’, as Mike Gillespie FCIIS MSyI CIRM covered monitoring within businesses and why they do it. […]

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BLOG: Policing and The Need for Information Management

  • by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
  • General

I write this as someone with first-hand experience in information security and its management and also experience in Policing, having served part of my career as a frontline Police Constable; this combination allows me to clearly observe the lack of information management within policing. In 2007, the movie Hot Fuzz starring Simon Pegg and Nick […]

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Valentine’s Day: Romance Scams on the Rise!

Dating apps are increasing in popularity year by year, which means that there’s more people available for scammers to target. But first and foremost, what is a romance scam? It is a type of scam that involves a fraudster building a (false) personal relationship with their victim, only to ask them for money – to […]

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