Manage cybersecurity in a risk-averse world

In its African Cyberthreat Assessment Report for 2021, Interpol found that at a conservative estimate, cyberattacks are costing the country about R2,2-billion annually. Research by anti-virus provider Kaspersky also found that ransomware attacks in South Africa...

AI-powered document forgery detection protects against shallowfakes

A rise in fraud continues to plague the insurance, banking, retail, telco and gaming sectors, with so-called “shallowfakes” now being highlighted as a growing threat alongside more sophisticated “deepfakes”. While deepfakes require AI to create...

How to spot and stop insider fraud

South African businesses are at serious risk from rapidly increasing payments fraud – often from within their very own organisations. Ryan Mer, CEO at eftsure Africa, says while criminal syndicates behind ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks...

Total system redundancy is key to effective data protection

Ransomware and malware have become part and parcel of business in today’s world. Organisations need to be adequately prepared, which means that their data protection strategy must go beyond the traditional backup, restore, and disaster recovery. By Hayden...

The security impact of digital innovation

The total number of internet users is expected to reach 5,3-billion by 2023 and the total number of devices and connections per person is anticipated to reach 3,6 globally by the same year, according to Statista. IoT Analytics’ State of IoT Spring 2022 report...

Mitigating the risk of Zero Day attacks against Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 servers contain extremely sensitive information and most organisations simply cannot do without it for an extended period of time. Zero-Day Attacks, those attacks that take advantage of a vulnerability in software or firmware found by cybercriminals...