Nov 14, 2013
Critical infrastructure systems are the backbone for controlling and managing essential services for industries including oil and gas, utilities, healthcare and public sector, says Craig Hockley, regional director for South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, McAfee. Any...
Nov 14, 2013
As the public and private sector strive to deliver Internet access to all, WiFi hotspots present a viable solution to the challenge of cost-effectively delivering access to the many. Free WiFi was recently rolled out in parts of Cape Town, for example, with free or...
Nov 5, 2013
A popular maxim today is that there are only two kinds of companies – those who have been breached, and those who have been breached but don’t know about it. Given that recent research has revealed that the average advanced persistent threat lurks on a business...
Nov 1, 2013
Cybercrime is costing businesses, and not just in terms of the bottom line. Compliance infringement is hugely expensive, made doubly so by the fact that compliance is hard to achieve, as many data breaches can be due to third party blunders. It is also quite a...
Oct 29, 2013
Until three years ago, cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure were considered hypothetical at best. Then along came Stuxnet, changing the threat landscape for good. The idea of weaponised malware had moved from theory into practice – for governments around the...
Oct 28, 2013
With the South African government’s recent inauguration of the National Cyber Security Advisory Council (NCAC) – higher emphasis has now been placed on the issue of cyber security threats, says Doros Hadjizenonos, sales manager at Check Point South Africa. We’ve all...
