Actionable intelligence essential for cyber defence

With each new breach making headlines, it is becoming clearer and clearer that yesterday’s defences are no match for today’s attacks. The growing popularity of cloud services, mobile devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) is widening the attack surface,...

Improve network security with SD-WAN

Enterprises that are widely dispersed, geographically speaking, are rapidly moving to embrace software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs). This is because SD-WANs dramatically lower costs, reduce complexity and make branch communications more secure, while also, in...

Changing cyber security best practice

Even though cyber security is a mission-critical part of ensuring business success in today’s digital environment, not many local companies are prioritising this. According to Zaheer Ebrahim – Presales Engineer at Trend Micro, more must be done to ensure...

Internal education, simulations key for security

A recent report by GreatHorn reveals that security experts have seen a 25% increase in the number of phishing emails that successfully evade security defences and arrive in users’ inboxes, in the past year alone. By Lukas van der Merwe, specialist sales...

Time is right for a career in cybersecurity

The cybersecurity landscape is a battle zone. War is being fought on every front, from email to firewalls to personnel to cracking complex codes, cybercriminals are evolving and adapting alongside the technology designed to protect organisations against them. For the...

Feed the board a diet of low-risk cyber security

Chief information security officers (CISO) have become part of the C-level team because of the importance of cyber security. They’re really there to help the board members and C-level executives know and understand the organisation’s position on cyber...