• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

We hope there are no ghouls in your servers or phantoms phishing your colleagues. Best wishes from everyone here at Advent IM and if you’re looking for scarily good information security support, we are right here…behind the sofa.

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Information security has always been a volatile and unpredictable landscape; things move so fast the only thing you can hang your hat on, is change. No one could really have predicted the largescale change of many people’s working lives and conditions and whilst I may be biased, I feel security has been at the heart […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

The details of more than 18,000 people who tested positive for coronavirus were published online by mistake by Public Health Wales. Read via BBC News. 

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Thank you to Advent IM Senior Security Consultant, Ian Waren. As we live through these unprecedented times, it provides us with the opportunity to reflect, as ‘normal working’ takes on a whole new meaning in a lot of cases. That said, some things do not change, especially where security is concerned. The ability to protect […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Visit our Education sector page to find our services or call us and ask about our specialist data protection and security services for Education. Download visual >>click

• by Ellie Hurst
• Industry News

Over half (54%) of UK universities reported a data breach to the regulator in the past 12 months, with an average of two reports each, according to new Freedom of Information (FOI) data collected by Redscan. Read full story by Phil Muncaster for Infosecurity Group

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Mike Gillespie and Craig Moan discuss the tendency to label every security event as a sophisticated attack and the impact that has on the understanding of both how prevalent serious attacks are and the need for  effective communication skills in security. https://www.advent-im.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Complex-attacks-v0.1-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

According to  ISC², almost half of security professionals (47%) report that they have been redeployed for a range of mostly IT  and mobile device deployment functions and 80% have reported a change of some kind to their role during the pandemic crisis, so far. Most (90%) are now working remotely, though for many this will […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

A valuable exploration of our actual understanding and commitment to culture change, and as with so many things, definitions are vital or we stray into important concepts becoming buzzwords… Over to Derek Willins, Head of Client Development. “What we need is culture change”. Really? Every week I hear or see the phrase, “we need a […]

• 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 […]