Tag: Julia McCarron
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Advent IM Joins The CPD Certification Service
- by Smeeta Padhiar
- Advent IM Blog
**PRESS RELEASE** Media Contact: Ellie Hurst +44 (0) 121 559 6699, bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 22/10/2019 Advent IM has joined The CPD Certification service to enhance the value of its popular training courses Holistic security consultancy and training provider Advent IM Ltd, has joined The CPD Certification Service with a view to certifying their respected range […]
Read MoreThe newest iteration of the UK Government Marketplace, Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework will include Advent IM
- by Smeeta Padhiar
- Advent IM Blog Advent IM News
**Press Release** Media Contact: Ellie Hurst +44 (0) 121 559 6699, bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 03.10.18 The UK’s leading independent, holistic security consultancy announced on Monday 1st October 2018 that they will be offering their services from the new iteration Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework 3. This framework is for public bodies and agencies to […]
Read MoreJulia and the Great Wall of China Charity Walk!
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
Our very own Julia McCarron – Operations Director here at Advent IM, is walking the Great Wall of China for Charity (British Heart Foundation) next month. We are all enormously proud of her and the diligent preparations she has been making for months now, in order to ensure she meets the strenuous demands of this […]
Read MoreJulia’s #Rules to Ransomware Safety
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
From Advent IM Director, Julia McCarron For those of you who read my irregular blogs, you’ll know I have a passion for the TV series NCIS. When I say passion more of an obsession really. So imagine the irony when they air an episode in the UK about Ransomware, in the wake of the world’s […]
Read MoreCyber Breach Surveys – Yesterdays Fish and Chip Paper? Guest post from Julia McCarron
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Advent IM Director, Julia McCarron, lends us her view on the latest cyber survey… I saw this morning that yet another Government survey has been revealed saying once again that ‘nearly half’ of UK firms had suffered a cyber security attack or breach. It seems that we are being given a very similar statistic pretty […]
Read MoreSecurity Predictions for 2016
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
As 2015 draws to a close, we asked the Advent IM Staff to ponder the challenges for next year. 2015 saw some huge data and security fumbles and millions of people had their personal information exposed as hack after hack revealed not only how much this activity is on the increase, but also how the […]
Read More“Five Eyes” intelligence document leak – Australian Defence bureaucrat off to jail
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
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’ […]
Read MoreThis isn’t just poor security….a post on the M&S security incident from Julia McCarron
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Advent IM Director, Julia McCarron has turned her eye to the M&S security breach… Well as our Marcomms Manager, Ellie superbly put it, “This isn’t just poor security, this is M&S poor security”. The brand synonymous with quality has let the side down following what it claims was an internal system glitch that caused M&S online account […]
Read MoreAre you still operating XP or Windows 2003? – A guest post from Julia McCarron, Advent IM Director
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Whilst Microsoft’s utopia may be for us all to automatically upgrade every time there is a new version of Windows, for many organisations this isn’t always an option. With some still coping with life after the recession the cost of upgrading to new platforms can be restrictive, especially if XP and Windows 2003 still works […]
Read MoreFrancis Maude visits Midlands Cyber Security Firm
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
The Rt. Hon. Francis Maude MP called in to meet the team at a West Midlands based Cyber Security Consultancy today. Today, Advent IM was pleased to host a visit by the Rt. Hon Francis Maude MP as part of his remit as the Minister for Cyber Security. Mr. Maude met with co-founders of Advent […]
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