Financial institutions at high risk

A financial institution not investing in a long term information security strategy is gambling with the protection of corporate and client data, according to information security experts at 4Di Privaca. The executive mind-set of viewing information security as a...

Cloud-based security is imminent

Cloud-based security services are gaining momentum as organisations look at smarter ways of managing their security strategies. Enterprise security no longer just encompasses firewalls and antivirus software, but a complex blend of secure e-mail and Web gateways,...

Biometrics leads in commercial security

For companies, knowing who a person is, where they are on the premises and why they are there – and validating this information – is the main driver behind security and biometric access control technology integration in the workplace. To this end,...

Malware never sleeps

Malware is always changing, adapting, being rewritten and re-released in a seemingly infinite number of ways, with the express intention of making your life difficult – and making the writers or owners of the code as much money as possible.  Security threats have...

Africa also urged to ‘mind the TMG gap’

George Zervos, EMEA sales director at Kemp Technologies, looks at Microsoft’s decision to “end of sale” its Threat Management Gateway and what it means for enterprise users across Africa. In September last year, Microsoft announced that it was...

Jasco boosts university’s security

The University of Pretoria has contracted the expertise of Jasco Security Solutions since 2004, to maintain and expand its fully-redundant Cosmos4 Alarm Systems at its campus grounds, which include its Main and Sports campus, Groenkloof, Onderstepoort, Mamelodi and...