Why your cloud journey must start with a ‘gearlock’ mindset

Recently, I was involved in a discussion with an acquaintance about a home-security upgrade, writes Allan Juma, lead cyber security engineer at ESET. The additional investment was not necessarily on the radar, except that the person told me that he had suspected...
Security monitoring should not cost more the harder you look

Security monitoring should not cost more the harder you look

Security maturity in the mid-market over the next few years will be decided as much by pricing models as by technology. By Christo Coetzer, founder and MD of BlueVision Technologies. The most important question a growing business can put to a prospective security...

How to get a good night’s sleep when data protection is your baby

In South Africa’s financial services sector, executives tasked with data protection are increasingly losing sleep over potentially failing audits and being held liable for data protection oversights. Siloed IT security, AI adoption, the move to cloud, and stringent...

Building a cybersecurity workforce ready for what’s next

Only a few years ago, AI was present in the workplace but peripheral, a specialised tool operating largely out of sight. Today, it’s fundamentally changing how we learn, work, and lead. By Marci Paino, chief learning officer of enterprise learning and growth at Cisco...

Your firewall is innocent

Blaming the firewall when a cyberattack gets through is a little like blaming the front door when someone walks into your house wearing a uniform. The problem is not necessarily that the door failed, the problem is that someone found another way in. By Kurt Goodall,...
Don’t panic – rather get the structure right

Don’t panic – rather get the structure right

The emergence of AI as a threat actor and the growing list of vulnerabilities and risks is rattling boardrooms globally. But Caesar Tonkin, MD of Armata Cyber Security, believes it’s not time to panic – it’s time to structure. The statistics and numbers...