Jun 1, 2016
Too many businesses today underestimate the dangers of spear phishing, and fail to realise it is one of the top threats enterprises face today, and one that often results in devastating losses, both financial and in terms of reputation. “Businesses who want to...
May 31, 2016
A decade ago, an anti-virus solution, firewall and some DLP were thought to be more than enough to prevent threats from damaging your organisation. However, today’s threats are far more sophisticated, and rely on your company’s most valuable assets to...
May 31, 2016
Frost & Sullivan predicts that the market for Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) will grow from $6,66-billion in 2011, to $15,63-billion by 2016. “We are seeing a steep increase in advanced threats and cyber attacks. More and more organisations across...
May 27, 2016
Petya ransomware is proving to be one of the top cybersecurity stories of 2016. Masquerading as a job application e-mail, Petya is an executable file that is sent within a dropbox link. Thinking that they are opening a job application, users run the file. And once the...
May 24, 2016
Many researchers now estimate the scale of the global cybercrime business to be greater than that of drug trafficking. Kaspersky Labs’ recent survey revealed that nine out of 10 companies have already been a target of cybercrime, in some shape or form, writes...
May 23, 2016
With mobile ownership in South Africa and Nigeria now as common as it is in the US, the continent is rapidly gaining ground as the new frontier for mobile. Its young population, ready to embrace the new mobile innovations and technologies, has attracted the attention...
