NSA contractor pleads guilty to data theft

A former computer contractor who stole terabytes of data from the US National Security Agency (NSA) has pleaded guilty to taking classified documents. Harold T Martin amassed documents and disk drives at his home, but is not believed to have sold or shared them. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 1st April 2019
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61% of CIOs believe employees leak data maliciously

There is a perception gap between IT leaders and employees over the likelihood of insider breaches. It is a major challenge for businesses: insider data breaches are viewed as frequent and damaging occurrences, of concern to 95% of IT leaders, yet the vectors for those breaches – employees – are either unaware of, or unwilling […]

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 27th March 2019
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Urgent investigation after Highgate Community Primary School sent email by mistake

A school is being investigated for a serious data breach. The Information Commissioner is investigating how the incident occured. It is believed that some information was sent out by mistake to parents of children at Highgate Community Primary School in Sileby. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 26th March 2019
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Do people with malicious intent present the biggest threat to personal data?

Against the backdrop of a complex and growing cyber threat landscape, organizations are waking up to the fact that one of the biggest chinks in their armour against a data security breach is humans. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 15th March 2019
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Security becoming one of the top workplace worries

As data breaches exposing sensitive company data become more common, new research from McAfee has revealed that being the cause of a data breach or cyber attack is one of the main work-related worries keeping employees up at night. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 11th March 2019
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Former council officer fined for emailing CVs of rival job applicants to his partner

A former senior local government officer has been prosecuted for passing the personal information of rival job applicants to his partner. Kevin Bunsell was employed by Nuneaton and Bedworth District Council in Warwickshire as its Head of Building Control and had been trained in data protection law. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 27th February 2019
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#Security predictions for 2018 from the Advent IM Team

Its that time of year. We look back over our shoulder and use the previous 12 months to try and work out what we can expect in the coming 12 months. Sometimes we get it horribly right, such as our prediction of the meteoric rise in ransomware and also that it would start to impact […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 21st December 2017
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Trust Nothing, Question Everything… #socialengineering

IFSEC Global – Our very own Steve Foley talking about the threats we face from social engineering and the part it plays in insider threat to our organisational security. Read it here.

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 30th October 2017
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Staff that work around security may be trying to tell you something..

We have talked about insider threat a lot. It seems that we are destined to talk about it a bit more given the amount of data breach and security failure still being driven by insiders. Bupa was subject to a malicious insider recently. An employee with access and a motivation is hard to stop, not […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 25th July 2017
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Let’s talk about a Leavers Policy

Del Brazil takes a look at recent security failures that made the news and could have been managed or prevented with a robust leavers policy and its careful application. An American college had cause to dismiss one of its IT Administrators and requested that all college IT equipment be returned. The employee complied but not […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 1st February 2017
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