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By Matthew Newton, Director of Investigations and Crisis Response, Valkyrie During February we have our annual ISO 9001 (2015) audit, this is the International Standard for Quality Management Systems, first published in 1987 by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and is one of the most commonly used management tools across the world. Although we […]

A great article showcasing Neal Gozzett and the wider Monan Gozzett team in the latest issue of Tempus Magazine, brilliantly pulled together by Michelle Johnson and her team at publishing agency Vantage Media. Just to reiterate Neal’s comments in Tempus, Valkyrie are very excited about our strategic partnership with Monan Gozzett LLP. The partnership affords […]

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has been widely publicised in recent weeks. When this news broke, the focus was on the tech industry and its impact on businesses, especially UK tech firms. We were onsite when we heard, and immediately discussed the likely security implications of the collapse. Criminals quickly seized the opportunity […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Our Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Counter Measures, Gurpreet Singh Thathy has been working within the field of Cyber Security for many years, and one of the more common questions clients ask him is, whether Cloud security is safe for storing data. Govts […]

A recent article published in Tatler that VALKYRIE (GB) LIMITED had the pleasure to contribute to. https://www.tatler.com/article/security-concerns-super-rich

Friday last week was a busy day for us. An early start as Gurpreet and Dave needed to be in Norwich for a meeting, a week’s long surveillance and investigation had come to an end and they were attending the task debrief before updating the client with the team leader. Once complete, they headed back […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Several weeks ago, we conducted some expert witness work that needed to be completed urgently for an investigation being carried out on a fraud case. Although the digital forensic piece was only a small part of the investigation it uncovered some other potential leads […]

Not the usual topic I post about but an important one. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been involved in reviewing and, where necessary updating our various company insurance policies to ensure we are fully covered for the services we provide. Any business operating within the security sector needs to have specific insurance in […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie   We follow all things social media very closely at Valkyrie especially in regard to security and privacy. In early January we posted an article about the growing concerns in regard to TikTok (TT), which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, and whether China’s […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie The TSCM team were on a task a couple of weeks ago. As per all our jobs, getting accurate information from the client is critical in understanding where the search is to be carried out. Sometimes clients ask us to sweep their offices or […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie In recent weeks there has been much talk and debate about the development and use of ChatGPT. For those who are not aware, ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by Silicon Valley start-up OpenAI that can provide ‘human-like answers’ to complex questions. We’ve had […]

By David Webb, Managing Director, Valkyrie Have you ever considered tracking your children? Recently, one of our clients (the CEO of a large company) called us to discuss his concerns regarding his children’s safety. This request came following a security exposure report we carried out on his family’s behalf; he was concerned about their physical […]

Yesterday we had our monthly strategy meeting at Valkyrie HQ (15 Belgrave square). The get together is always beneficial and covers a broad selection of topics from current/future tasks to finance and everything in between. Always great to get everyone together in the same place including our CEO and co-founder, Floyd Woodrow, and co-founder and […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) is one of our core services, and we are often asked about the market size and demand for services. Over the past ten years, there have been significant changes in the threat landscape due to technological advances. These advances have […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie We were returning from a meeting this week and stopped off at a service station to fuel up and grab a coffee. This service station had several food courts, so we also grabbed a sandwich. Whilst in the queue we noticed that one of […]