Companies still fail to protect data

Despite their having comprehensive information security and data protection policies in place, most South African businesses are still wide open to data theft and misuse, says Mervyn Mooi, director at the Knowledge Integration Dynamics Group. Numerous pieces of...

Data security on and offline

To keep up with technology and improve efficiencies, companies are constantly replacing outdated IT equipment. However, this creates a challenge as large amounts of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. The problem with IT asset disposal...

10 steps to protect against ransomware

If you’ve been listening to the news at all the past couple of weeks, you have undoubtedly heard of a number of companies being affected by ransomware, writes Paul Williams, major account manager at Fortinet. The recent surge in this form of cyber attack has...

SSL: The unchecked security blind spot

When changing lanes on the highway, you would first indicate to make other drivers aware of your intentions and then check your blind spot to make sure it was safe to switch lanes, writes Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. Those safety measures, which...

Malvertising: when advertising becomes dangerous

Over the last several months, the BBC, the New York Times, and other major news and commercial websites became victims of malvertising attacks, writes Doros Hadjizenonos, country manager of Check Point South Africa What exactly is malvertising? To understand this type...

A look at the 2016 security landscape

A couple of years ago, the security industry claimed the anti-virus industry was dead. This isn’t strictly true. On one side, pure anti-virus companies do not exist any longer, but instead of security companies limiting themselves to a single, traditional...