Tag: Mike Gillespie
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Mike shortlisted…twice! National Cyber Awards
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
We are delighted to share some great news with you. Mike has been list as a finalist in TWO categories at the National Cyber Awards this month. Cyber Citizen of the the Year Cyber Volunteer of the Year We are so delighted for him and Mike is still stunned. Please wish him […]
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Think beyond tick-box compliance
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog Advent IM News General
“When it comes to compliance with the GDPR and the UK’s updated Data Protection Act (DPA), Mike Gillespie, managing director and co-founder of independent security consultancy Advent IM, says no information security professional should be driving the conversation through dialogue about potential fines. In his experience, this is both defeatist and counter-productive when dealing with […]
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Think beyond tick-box compliance
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A year on since GDPR, many organisations are yet to stop fretting over fines and focus instead on business value Read via Computer Weekly.
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Catching up with Mike… #DPD20
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog Advent IM News General
We managed to catch up with the ever busy MD, Mike and he had a few good answers for us this #DataProtectionDay.. The wisdom and experience is all his, the background ambience comes from the CIISec Charter celebration last week, where Mike, Derek and Ellie joined in the celebration of our Institute (for we are […]
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Age of Surveillance Capitalism, with comments from Mike Gillespie
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM News
She starts her work as she means to go on with a definition, or rather several; ‘surveillance capitalism‘ as a ‘new economic order’ where the raw material is not steel or coal, but ‘human experience’. Read via Professional Security Magazine Online.
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Mike has a few words on WhatsApp…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Mike Gillespie has taken to the blog to express his opinion of WhatsApp and the targeting of advertising. So, its official, WhatsApp users will be sent targeted advertising by 2020 It has been on the cards for a while now, indeed some might say that once Facebook acquired Whatsapp it was inevitable. After all, Facebook […]
Read MoreMike will be speaking at an IISP Regional event
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
On July the 9th, MIke will be speaking at a regional IISP event at University of Manchester. Details & Booking
Read MoreMinimum standard for the manufacture of surveillance cameras to be launched
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Mike has written a post for the Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s blog… I have been fortunate to be involved in the Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s National Surveillance Camera Strategy for England and Wales for the last 2 years since Tony Porter invited me to provide a consistent, cross cutting advisory role into his National Strategy. Read the full post..
Read MoreThe World’s First Surveillance Camera Day!
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
As you will be aware, our MD, Mike Gillespie has been acting as Cyber Security adviser to Tony Porter, The Surveillance Camera Commissioner on a pro bono basis, for some time. So of course we are delighted to help the Commissioner share the news of the inaugural Surveillance Camera Day and its launch at IFSEC […]
Read MoreMike Gillespie in Computer Weekly – Security Think Tank: Aim for integrated resilience, continuity and recovery
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
How should businesses plan to survive a potential cyber attack extinction event? Up to recent time, perhaps the past couple of years, when I talked about the possibility of an extinction event from a cyber attack, the perspectives of the vast majority of people were still entirely focused on this being an exfiltration, manipulation or […]
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