Employees key to cyberdefence

Cybersecurity Awareness Month has reminded us that employees are central to an organisation’s defence. By David Howell, regional sales director at ManageEngine South Africa But when do password rules, multi-factor authentication (MFA) requests, phishing warnings,...

Shared intelligence will define the future of fraud prevention

South Africa is not losing the fight against fraud because it lacks technology. It is being challenged because fraud is evolving faster than institutions can respond in isolation. By Salomon Erasmus, regional MD of Network International Southern Africa In...

How SA can win in the tech talent war

Culture can be a strategic operating system in SA’s response to the global tech talent war, writes Lizl Barnard, chief of staff and commercial operations at Skynamo. South African businesses, and technology scale-ups in particular, face a harsh commercial reality....

AI changes the speed and scale of cyber risks, but not the fundamentals

For all the uncertainty surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), one thing remains certain –  its impact on the security landscape. Where enterprises are concerned, this is true on two very important fronts, writes Chris Mulder, senior solutions architect at Red Hat....
Unsanctioned AI tools are a pervasive risk to the business

Unsanctioned AI tools are a pervasive risk to the business

Security teams cannot secure what they don’t know is there, writes Richard Frost, head of technology solutions and consulting at Armata Cyber Security. Shadow AI has become one of the most prevalent forms of shadow IT in 2026, with unsanctioned AI tools adopted by...

Your cybersecurity is only as strong as your talent

For 55% of South African cybersecurity teams, staffing is already a problem. By Zuleika Pinda, head of recruitment and talent sourcing at Paracon by Adcorp ISACA’s 2025 State of Cybersecurity report found that 65% of organisations have unfilled cybersecurity...