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Universities need to get the most out of the ICO

From our Head of Marcomms, Ellie Hurst The report produced by the ICO on information risk in higher education, is an excellent resource that every university and college should be embracing. It is a pragmatic response to increased security breach in this sector, produced in a sensible and common sense, practical way. As you know, […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 13th March 2019
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#Security predictions for 2018 from the Advent IM Team

Its that time of year. We look back over our shoulder and use the previous 12 months to try and work out what we can expect in the coming 12 months. Sometimes we get it horribly right, such as our prediction of the meteoric rise in ransomware and also that it would start to impact […]
  • Posted by Ellie Hurst
  • On 21st December 2017
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Is your CEO having a whale of a time? Put a stop to it! #phishingTackle

Criminals know where the richest pickings are; it might be financial or it might be valuable information, but the higher up the organisational tree they manage to get and successfully target, the greater the reward. But when it comes to understanding cyber threat, we don’t have to look very far to realise our boardrooms are […]
  • Posted by Ellie Hurst
  • On 6th June 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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Social Engineering – Still the best attacker exploit – guest post from Dale Penn, Advent IM Security Consultant

Another great post from one of our consultants, this time from Dale Penn on the topic of Social Engineering. Introduction Social engineering is still the most prolific and successful method of hacking. It is a non-technical attack that relies on a user being tricked or coerced into some form of action which presents the attacker […]
  • Posted by Ellie Hurst
  • On 29th June 2015
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Local MP, James Morris, supports efforts to bridge the cyber skills gap.

**Press Release** Midland based Cyber/Information Security Consultancy and members of the Malvern Cyber Security Cluster, Advent IM enjoyed some serious discussion of how to bridge the cyber security skills gap with James Morris, the MP for Halesowen and Rowley Regis MP.   Advent IM, the UKs leading independent holistic security consultancy welcomed local MP James […]
  • Posted by Ellie Hurst
  • On 25th February 2015
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