Nov 24, 2016
With the annual holiday season fast approaching and shopping malls nationwide preparing for the usual end of year deluge, the safety and security of both tenants and consumers plays a critical part in the effective management of South Africa’s retail...
Nov 18, 2016
Increased digitisation by companies in order to cut costs and streamline operations can have the opposite effect if cyber risks are not managed. This is according to Charl Ueckermann, managing director of AVeS Cyber Security. As part of its medium-term budget released...
Nov 18, 2016
When a gaming provider is taken offline it frustrates hardcore users and damages the company’s reputation. Because availability is of such primary importance to gamers, these firms are frequent targets for attack. “With distributed denial of service (DDoS)...
Nov 17, 2016
Arbor Networks, the security division of NETSCONetScoutUT, has introduced version 2.2 of Arbor Networks Spectrum, to the African region. Arbor Spectrum v2.2 is a high performance network traffic analysis platform integrating Netflow, packet and threat intelligence...
Nov 17, 2016
It starts with innovative password selections, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. Data is the lifeblood of our business lives and is of paramount importance to corporations everywhere. Yet, we have recently seen another set of personal information...
Nov 14, 2016
On 21 June, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, posted a message on the social network celebrating an Instagram landmark. The photo and video-sharing platform, which is owned by Zuckerberg’s company, is now enjoyed by more than 500-million active monthly...