Cybercrime, hacking a worry for SMBs

Jan 28, 2015

Cybercrime costs the global economy $445-billion annually, and cyber espionage and stealing personal information is believed to have affected more than 800-million people during 2013. Although the perception of the risk of cybercrime is increasing (9% from 38% in 2011...

Smart homes easy prey for hackers

Jan 28, 2015

While the increasing use of home automation technology to create your version of a “smart home” may be trendy and seem practical, Richard Keymer, head of pre-sales at SecureData Africa, warns of the flip-side in that once an automation system is established and can be operated remotely online, then chances are it can be hacked.

Securing the new era of big data

Jan 26, 2015

In the digital age, information is the new currency. And in order to get information, enterprises are mining data – and lots of it – for the knowledge that it can yield, says Perry Hutton, Fortinet Africa regional director. On the scale of Internet commerce or social...

Steps to application-aware data protection

Jan 23, 2015

Many IT organisations have had the same data protection tools and practices for years, even decades, and see no need for that to change. However, Application Owners need to know that they’ll be able to recover their data at the application level when disaster strikes,...

Predicting DDoS attacks

Jan 22, 2015

Distributed denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are back in the news; it seems that barely a month goes by without media reports of a Web site or service being brought down by a DDoS attack. Sony’s PlayStation Network again became the victim of such an attack recently,...

IT security ‘fire drills’ key

Jan 19, 2015

IT security “fire drills”, supported by executive management and the risk committee should be conducted regularly in organisations, in order to understand the appropriate course of action in advance of a security breach. So says Neil Campbell, group GM for...