Julia and the Great Wall of China Charity Walk!

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 […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 21st September 2017
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Julia’s #Rules to Ransomware Safety

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 […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 22nd May 2017
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Cyber Breach Surveys – Yesterdays Fish and Chip Paper? Guest post from Julia McCarron

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 […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 19th April 2017
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Security Predictions for 2016

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 […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 7th December 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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This isn’t just poor security….a post on the M&S security incident from Julia McCarron

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 […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 29th October 2015
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Are you still operating XP or Windows 2003? – A guest post from Julia McCarron, Advent IM Director

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 […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 22nd June 2015
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Francis Maude visits Midlands Cyber Security Firm

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 […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 22nd January 2015
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