Oct 14, 2016
According to the 2016 PwC Global Economic Crime Survey, 32% of South African organisations have experienced cybercrime – a figure which is said to be increasing rapidly as at least 57% of respondents believed they’d be affected by cybercrime within the...
Oct 3, 2016
Regardless of how much of your business is run offline, you are still a target, says Sarel Lamprecht, MD of cyber insurance provider Phishield. Even sectors of the economy that have thought themselves immune to cyber attacks – because they don’t...
Oct 3, 2016
Starting a business is a huge achievement, while the greatest challenge is to sustain and develop it. There are many threats to a business that can take it from profitability to extreme financial hardship in an instant, and many risks are entirely beyond our control....
Sep 23, 2016
According to the Consumer Loss Barometer, the financial services sector is the most proactive when it comes to investing in and focusing on information security, yet more than one-third of consumers say their personal bank accounts have been compromised and almost...
Sep 16, 2016
Keeping an organisation’s most valuable assets secure over an array of networks and connections is a collaborative and complex process, involving and impacting on all aspects of the business. In addition, despite increasingly strong security measures, breaches...
Sep 14, 2016
The World Wide Web is a great resource, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to take precautions, writes Sarel Lamprecht, MD of cyber insurance company Phishield. Although the Web is 27 years old, newspaper reports abound of people being taken for a ride....
