Time to review critical safety controls

Recent incidents have highlighted the need for all companies and organisations to review the safety and security of their data and their IT systems, as standard approaches no longer protect against myriad vulnerabilities, an expert says. “Even the highest...

The business case for DDoS protection

As our businesses continue to digitise, and an increasing number of services are delivered via the cloud, we tend to have very low tolerance for downtime. “Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can rip straight into the heart of the modern digital...

An intelligent solution for security skills

It’s no secret that we’re currently faced with a global information security skills crisis, writes Simeon Tassev, MD and QSA of Galix Networking. Given that the predicted increase in demand for information security professionals is exceeding the current...

Security transitions to all-digital solutions

If your goal is to have all-digital security in just five years, Eckart Zollner, head of business development at the Jasco Group, says there is a smart way to do it. There are a lot of analogue CCTV solutions out there – they account for over 60% of the current...

Proactively defend your network

Cyber attacks occur with increasing speed and sophistication. Advanced persistent threats (APTs) that are tailored to infiltrate a network and target specific information are a reality, and are only going to become more pervasive. In today’s world of the...

Learn, segment and protect in the IoT world

Experts predict that by 2020 there will be 4,3 Internet-connected devices for every man, woman, and child on the planet. Each of these connected devices generates data that is pushed, pulled, collected, sorted, analysed, stored, and examined. This data, and the...