**PRESS RELEASE**

Media Contact: Ellie Hurst +44 (0) 121 559 6699,

bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 27.03.2013

The Security Institute votes Advent IM Managing Director onto its Board of Directors.
Following voting by Security Institute members at their Annual General Meeting on March 26 2013, five new members of the Board of Directors were announced. One of those new Directors will be Mike Gillespie, Managing Director of the Independent Security Consultancy, Advent IM Ltd. I am really excited to have been elected. I have so many ideas to share and am so thrilled to be able to be a part of the future of the Security Institute, which is in turn, the future of our profession. Mike is a relative newcomer and considered his chances of election to be quite slim, I was so pleased at being nominated in the first place, it was quite unexpected and felt like I had achieved something, so to actually get elected is a privilege. I have been talking a lot about converging Information Assurance (IA) with the physical world and bringing cyber security to the forefront, but I will have to wait until I attend my first Directors meeting in April and get my portfolio The Board of Directors next business will be to elect a Chairman. Ends Ref: MG/SYI/260313

NOTES TO EDITORS About Advent IM Advent IM is an independent specialist consultancy, focusing on holistic security management solutions for information, people and physical assets, across both the public and private sectors. Established in 2002, Advent IM is a centre of excellence for security services, promoting the benefits of best practice guidelines and standards and the need to address risk management to protect against potential threats. From its offices in the Midlands and London, its Consultants work nationwide and are members of the CESG Listed Advisor Scheme (CLAS), Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP), The Security Institute (SyI), Business Continuity Institute and British Computer Society. Consultants are also Lead Auditors for the International standard for information security management (ISO 27001) and business continuity management (ISO 22301), Practitioners of PRINCE2, a recognised project management methodology widely used within the public sector, CISSP qualified and Home Office trained physical security assessors.