• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM News Industry News

Security Twenty Virtual Event goes live 14th July and you can access our Ransomware presentation easily. The event features a wide range of security equipment to view via the Exhibition Hall, as well as a lively and varied Conference Centre, A Literature Library and a Networking Lounge where you can virtually catch up with industry colleagues and […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM News Industry News

AI and machine learning techniques are said to hold great promise in security, enabling organisations to operate a IT predictive security stance and automate reactive measures when needed. Is this perception accurate, or is the importance of automation being gravely overestimated? Read Mike Gillespie in Computer Weekly.

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

In this episode we chew the fat with Phil Ingram MBE and look at the escalation of nation state activity and how it affects everyone’s every day lives, both digitally through cyber attacks and in real life such as the Salisbury poisonings.   https://www.advent-im.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Propoganda-and-the-State-of-Nation-State-Activity-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• General

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• by Ellie Hurst
• Industry News

You may not know it, but if you live in the UK and have contacted the NHS with any coronavirus-related health concerns, your data is now being used for research.  Read this story by Stephen Khan in The Conversation.

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

If there is one thing that has given me hope during this lockdown period, it has been the emergence of a more human face to business. I have attended a couple of webinars, spoken on some panels and read a lot of content and a great deal of human care and concern has been evident. […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Thank you to Head of Client Development, Derek Willins for this 5 minute read One day you realise with horror that your files and computers have been blocked. Nothing works. A message appears, it says everything is encrypted, and you have 2 days to pay a ransom in bitcoin before it deletes everything.  What do […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

A five minute read from one of the team Thank you to our Head of Client Development, Derek Willins The COVID -19 lockdown has reminded me about something I learned a few years ago. It was the concept of toxic assumptions. They are effectively thinking boundaries (or firewalls if you like) that create organisational inertia […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

The company has notified guests whose information was compromised in the incident Read via Computing.

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

From Advent IM MD, Mike Gillespie. In a few short months the words ‘terrorism’, ‘conflict’ and ‘war’ have all but disappeared from our news programming. ‘Pandemic’, ‘coronavirus’ and COVID-19 now dominate not ony news but everyday conversatons, social media interactions and what feels like very waking moment. Sadly, 2020 has brought fear, uncertainty and financial […]