WannaCrypt update from Kaspersky Lab

On Friday 12 May 2017, organisations across the world were hit by a massive ransomware attack, named WannaCry, which exploited a (now patched) Microsoft Windows vulnerability revealed in the Shadowbrokers dump on March 14. Kaspersky Lab researchers have continued to...

Attacks highlights need for cyber insurance

The fresh ransomware attack of unprecedented proportions, estimated to have impacted at least 100 countries, and affecting massive global organisations such as FedEx, Britain’s national health and the German rail network has highlighted the severe implications of...

Insulating your business against ransomware threats

The world has been shaken by a massive ransomware attack. Jonathan Kropf, CEO of Tarsus On Demand, offers some advice on how to keep your systems safe. It’s one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, it’s already a multibillion dollar global criminal enterprise...

Tips for hybrid network-enabled security

The information and communications technology (ICT) sector is one of the main driving forces behind organisational competitiveness in the modern business environment. Modern businesses increasingly rely on network-supported technologies, such as cloud computing,...

Securing the software-defined data centre

The term “digital transformation” is on every CIO’s lips today, and a large part of this transformation, is the move to a software-defined data centre (SDDC).  “The SDDC is the IT infrastructure of tomorrow,” says Lutz Blaeser, MD of Intact Software Distribution. “For...

Technology is useful against procurement fraud

The integrity of state expenditure at all levels of governance has come under increasingly heavy fire from South African citizens over the past few years, as the press has reported on the growing incidence of conflict of interest in public procurement. In August 2016,...