Stay safe on the World Wide Web

ITNA’s director, Kagiso Setsetse, discusses the pitfalls of the Internet and how businesses can avoid cyber-attacks. The issue of Web security is not a new one. However, since our migration to the digital age, organisations are now facing rapidly changing risk...

Endpoint security is not dead

Endpoint security software, AV in particular, is getting a bad reputation for being an ineffective security measure. Advanced attacks, increasingly sophisticated threats, and trends such as cloud, mobility and the Internet of Things are changing the security game and...

Wearable video and audio surveillance

Security companies and armed response personnel are an integral part of life in South Africa. However, their day-to-day jobs are often fraught not only with certain dangers, but also liability challenges as well. When the “heat is on” and security...

Storage is key in surveillance

In today’s market, storage is one of the most important elements in any surveillance system. That’s according to Fredy Issa, business development manager: Digital Security Industry for EMC Gulf, who says that organisations which invest heavily in CCTV and surveillance...

Antivirus not enough in the Internet age

Today’s society is always on, always connected – from PCs and notebooks to tablets, smartphones and even smart televisions and other devices – we have become used to accessing the Internet at will, wherever we are, says Fred Mitchell, Symantec division manager,...

Unravelling a financial cyber-attack

A Russian company contacted Kaspersky Lab asking to investigate an incident when more than $130,000 was nearly stolen from its corporate account. The company representatives suspected malware was behind this incident. That suspicion was confirmed in the very first...