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By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie We have recently been working for individuals and their families of a company in the UK who suffered a major security breach resulting in personal information being accessed including at board room level, opening individuals up to potential personal exploitation. We will post further […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie The final member of our team, Gurpreet Thathy headed back from Germany on Saturday after completing the forensic capture of multiple devices. In two recent posts (8th and 21st Sept) we highlighted the need for planning and preparation before all tasks especially overseas tasks. It’s clearly […]

As mentioned in previous posts this week the VALKYRIE (GB) LIMITED team have been busy with several matters this week, this included a team in Germany for 3 days. Yesterday, a client called asking if we were available to conduct a short-notice sweep of a hotel conference room and also provide live monitoring of the room in […]

The nature of our business often requires us to action a task at short notice at the request of a client. Recently we’ve had a couple of examples where scoping a task in detail would have been advantageous to the execution of the task, but time did not allow, this is especially important when it […]

We are often required to conduct taskings overseas. Valkyrie is well versed in dealing with the various different customs requirements when traveling to and from different countries. As we have posted previously we always service and prepare our equipment prior to travel, but an additional and important requirement that you may not be aware of […]

Valkyrie has been busy the past week with taskings and meetings, and it ended on Sunday (25th) when we sponsored the 5th annual show of ‘Magic of Indian’ dance produced by DanceNBeats Chittal Shah. The event was held at the Curve, Slough. It was a fantastic event with several cultures coming together to perform different […]

A couple of Fridays ago, I wrote a post on street names in Belgravia, today I thought I would highlight some of Valkyrie’s favourite pubs near our office. We often frequent several of the pubs in the local area to meet clients and contacts or relax after a busy day in the office. Our default […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Following on from our previous posts related to street crime and robbery – 15th Aug (e-scooters), 25th Aug (high value timepieces) and 30th Aug (Instabragging). I was talking to a friend of mine last week whose daughter had fallen victim to a phone snatch whilst talking on […]

At Valkyrie, our clients value our multi-disciplinary approach. Recently we have been tasked with a large security review of residential property overseas, a cyber security review of all the infrastructure within the property, endpoint security checks and due to the circumstances that triggered the tasking we will also provide a short training package to the […]

By Matthew Newton, Director of Investigations and Crisis Response, Valkyrie The majority of us watched the State funeral over the weekend, either from home, a televised venue or actually within the crowds. Here at Valkyrie, we are either ex-military or ex police and very proud to have served Her Majesty, our boss. This morning Dave […]

Due to the sad death of Her Majesty The Queen, Valkyrie will be observing the Bank Holiday on Monday 19th September so we can pay our respects. We shall be back on Tuesday 20th.  Rest in peace, Your Majesty.

Today, I celebrate my one-year anniversary (‘paper’) at Valkyrie!  The skills I acquired during my police career have been put to good use here at Valkyrie. I’ve made many new contacts and friends via LinkedIn, and I thank you all for following us and look forward to working with you all in year two and […]

Over the course of the year, we have been asked on several occasions whether we can facilitate work experience. Unfortunately, due to client commitments we haven’t been able to commit to facilitating despite a desire to do so. However, we did agree that we must run at least one work experience module before the end […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Our forensic team continue to be busy conducting digital forensics for clients across the UK. We previously posted about the importance of chain of custody and how important it is to avoid the questioning of evidence integrity. Our team are highly trained in the […]

Last week our sister company, Vantage Media Group celebrated Tempus magazine’s 10th birthday. The evening event was in partnership with Pictorum Gallery and hosted at the RSA House Vaults, Royal Society for Arts.  A special well done to Michelle Johnstone the magazine editor and Director of Editorial at Vantage Media Group and Ross Forbes, Director of Art […]