Threat actors are logging in

In June 2025, datasets containing around 16-billion login credentials were compromised across platforms like Apple, Google and Facebook. Fast forward to 2026 and the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index reveals the number of AI chatbot credentials for sale on the...

The next constraint on MSP growth is security operations

Many South African businesses rely on managed service providers for cybersecurity because maintaining specialist capability in-house is expensive and difficult. André Kannemeyer, technical CEO of Duxbury Networking That demand creates a genuine growth opportunity for...

Why your employees are lying about using AI

Buried in KPMG’s global AI research is a detail that gets skipped past too quickly: more than half of employees — 57% — admit they hide their AI use and pass the output off as their own work. By Gareth Redelinghuys, country MD at TrendAI Not “use AI...

Endpoint protection is only as strong as what happens after you buy it

Antivirus has moved well beyond spotting known bad files. “Modern endpoint protection watches behaviour, context and patterns instead,” says Angela Pringle, cyber security lead at CyberLogic. That shift, from traditional antivirus to endpoint protection platforms...

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...