Tag: national security
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Technology and science move to the heart of UK security
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
National power will be defined not by the number of tanks and ships a country possesses but by its science and technology, and the quality of its algorithms. Read via BBC News.
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Cyber strength now key to national security, says UK
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The UK government has published strategic goals to 2025 – and cybersecurity got a lot of attention. Read via ZDNet.
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Fraud epidemic ‘is now national security threat’
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK and should be seen as a national security issue, says think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). read via BBC News.
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US urges UK to reconsider Huawei 5G decision
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Mike Pompeo describes Huawei as a ‘real risk’ to security and tells foreign secretary Dominic Raab to reconsider its role in the UK’s 5G and fibre networks Read via Computing.
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Using Huawei in UK 5G network ‘madness’, says US
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM News
The US has warned the British government it “would be madness” to use Huawei technology in the UK’s 5G network. Read via BBC News.
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Cyber Security Breach – Guest Blog
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
Guest post from Jason Barron, Advent IM Security Consultant Cyber security breaches hit unprecedented highs in UK defence industry – Just my opinion! What do you consider an unprecedented high? On Wed 8 Jan 20, Sky News released an article relating to a statistics document alleged to have been produced by the Defence Industry Warning, […]
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’ […]
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