Prevention is always better than cure

Every data breach that rocks the headlines seems to get worse. The fines get bigger, the damage to reputation more severe. More than one share price has plummeted in the aftermath of a data breach. Should a data breach occur, there are multiple issues a business has...

KYC models need to upgrade

Know Your Customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering approaches will need a complete overhaul to cope with the wave of digital change, the mainstreaming of blockchain technology and efforts to bank 2-billion unbanked people, says Ideco. Know your customer (KYC) and...

Take a human centric approach to security

Every time the details of a new security breach hits the headlines, something is made clear: Security tools and solutions aren’t working. Yet businesses continue to throw more and more money and technology at the problem. It’s time to look at the human factor, which...

Paranoia and personas to secure IoT

The low-cost, low-power nature of the IoT can cause security considerations to be deferred till much later in the product implementation stage, or sometimes, indefinitely. By Sherry Zameer senior vice-president: IoT at Gemalto However to realize IoT’s true...

IT security: oxygen or onion?

Security is as vital to organisational success as technology and people. By Mark Walker, associate vice-president: sub-Saharan Africa at International Data Corporation (IDC) Search for security on Google. The engine will autofill with – security is like oxygen...

Modern KPIs for effective cybersecurity

Faced with increasingly frequent and sophisticated cyber-attacks, enterprises are scrambling to put technologies and processes in place to effectively detect and combat cyber risks. By Martin Potgieter, technical director at Nclose Research by Symantec found that...