Tag: cybersecurity
News and information from the Advent IM team.
#5MinSecurityRead: Security and Business Continuity…what lockdown is teaching us
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
During our podcast last week, we touched on the relationship between security and business continuity. The speed with which many organisations and businesses had to shift workforces to homeworking exposed a wide range of unexplored vulnerabilities, at least for many. Whilst IT shortages or loss of IT has been very high on the Business Continuity […]
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Cybercrime in the pandemic
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
From Advent IM MD, Mike Gillespie. In a few short months the words ‘terrorism’, ‘conflict’ and ‘war’ have all but disappeared from our news programming. ‘Pandemic’, ‘coronavirus’ and COVID-19 now dominate not ony news but everyday conversatons, social media interactions and what feels like very waking moment. Sadly, 2020 has brought fear, uncertainty and financial […]
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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: Apple Podcasts | 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 […]
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