Tag: cybersecurity
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Security Predictions for 2020 from the Advent IM Team
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
It’s that time of the year when our consultants get the crystal ball out and make some predictions for the year to come… New Year, Same Problems … Another year and another set of predictions from the Advent IM Team … Mike Gillespie: Organisations will finally take the talking spoon off IT and stop buying […]
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Podcast: Mike talks to Chris Recker of Trowers & Hamlins about Fraud, Cyber Currencies and much more…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
https://www.advent-im.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Cybercrime-and-crypto-currencies-v0.2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSS
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Tracking the threat actors: NCSC’s Eleanor Fairford on the evolving menace to the UK’s critical infrastructure
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
‘We’re seeing ransomware increasingly deployed against utility providers, law enforcement and emergency response units Read Via Computing.co.uk.
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UK IT Pros: Brexit Will Increase Skills Shortages
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Over 90% of UK IT professionals believe Brexit will make chronic industry skills shortages even worse, according to new research from RedSeal. Read more via InfoSecurity.
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#CyberSecurityMonth and it’s the Top 10 WORST passwords!
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
Is your password still ‘12345’ or ‘password’ ? It’s time for change… Almost all of the current Top 10 WORST passwords have been in the Top 20 for the last 5 years. The threat will continue to increase as cyber criminals become smarter and more advanced as the years pass. With the increase number and […]
Read MoreMike will be speaking at an IISP Regional event
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
On July the 9th, MIke will be speaking at a regional IISP event at University of Manchester. Details & Booking
Read MoreCyberTalk – Security Automation – finding news ways of doing things badly?
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
Ellie discussing automation, leadership, skills gap and the need for great processes before you start… click
Read MoreDoes the Automotive Industry need a Minder? From Julia McCarron
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Delighted to be able to bring you a post from Advent IM Co-Founder and Director, Julia McCarron. Does the Automotive Industry need a Minder? Last month the ICO saw its first ever resultant prison sentence for not only failure to protect data under the Data Protection Act but also a failing under the Computer Misuse […]
Read MoreThe Insider that rarely gets questioned…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Insider Threat certainly isn’t going away, is it? Reading the continual survey results and news items I see published, it will still be an issue for a long time to come. We know that a lot of the Risk that Insiders bring can be mitigated with good policy and process combined with tech that is fit for purpose. But […]
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