Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse fined £200,000 for revealing identities of possible abuse victims in mass email

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after sending a bulk email that identified possible victims of non-recent child sexual abuse. The Inquiry, set up in 2014 to investigate the extent to which institutions failed to protect children from sexual abuse, did not keep […]

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 18th July 2018
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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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The importance of pastoral care – guest post from Mike Gillespie

Advent IM, MD, Mike Gillespie gives us his thoughts on the ongoing role pastoral care plays, post vetting when it comes to insider threat. People Every business needs them. Every business spends money and time sourcing, training and moulding them. Some businesses even put them through a rigorous vetting system. But because we are human, our belief […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 19th September 2016
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Morrisons staff suing over data breach. Del Brazil takes a look at what we know and what it might mean.

Advent IM Security Consultant, Del Brazil discusses some of the questions raised by the legal action from Morrisons employees over a data breach that led to their private information being leaked… It has been reported in Computer Weekly that thousands of Morrisons staff are planning to sue the retailer over a data breach in which a disgruntled former […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 6th November 2015
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“Five Eyes” intelligence document leak – Australian Defence bureaucrat off to jail

This week saw the news that the junior bureaucrat from the Australian Department of Defence, has been jailed for one year, following his guilty plea in the ACT Supreme Court to posting a secret Defence Intelligence Organisation, to an online forum. Julia McCarron gives her take on this quite staggering series of events. Not a ‘Gooday’ […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 5th November 2015
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The Insider that rarely gets questioned…

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 […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 16th October 2015
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