Jun 24, 2016
There is no doubt that one of the main assets of a company is the data it stores. Information about its customers, financial or employee planning, among other types of records, should be adequately protected and available whenever they are needed. For this reason,...
Jun 21, 2016
Cyber-attacks, like a big old snowball, continue to grow as it rolls down the mountain. And in its wake are the good guys aka security professionals who are struggling to keep pace. The reality is cybercriminals and so-called hacktivists continue to deepen their...
Jun 14, 2016
Banking fraud is on a frightening up curve and it appears it is impossible for banks to stop it by themselves, said Tjaart van der Walt, MD of telecommunications and banking specialist TruTeq Group. Can this problem be solved at all? Yes. There are a number of...
Jun 14, 2016
Some have said, only half-jokingly, that an innovation only gets the investment they need to be perfected once the arms industry has seen a need for it. More worryingly, there is now good evidence that much of the innovation is being driven by increasingly organised,...
Jun 7, 2016
Mike Concertino, chief information security officer and vice-president: information security at F5 Networks, looks at how the debate between privacy and security is evolving. Some of you may remember a time when national security was a question of police officers...
Jun 7, 2016
The same model of sharing data and intelligence employed by those who create the threats to our organisations should inform our approach to meeting them head on. And cloud gives us a key means to do this, writes Trevor Coetzee, regional director, South Africa and...
