Sep 30, 2013
Traditional PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Security Data Standards), as outlined by the PCI Security Council, were traditionally enforced to ensure that merchants’ perimeter payment-card security initiatives were in line with the minimum legislation, but not...
Aug 30, 2013
Security within facilities – CCTV, access controls, alarms, fire detection and suppression and so on – is today increasingly integrated and digital, yet it is often an afterthought when a new building is designed, says Kobus Le Roux, national sales and marketing...
Aug 30, 2013
Protecting data has become of the utmost importance for organisations today, as information if the lifeblood of a business, says Gareth Tudor, CEO of Altonet. There are many consequences should sensitive information fall into the wrong hands, however, as the workforce...
Aug 28, 2013
Mobile threats are growing exponentially, as a flood of mobile devices is hitting the enterprise. If the past is anything to go by, 2013 will see an unprecedented number of threats hitting the mobile enterprise. Over and above lost and stolen devices, there are...
Aug 27, 2013
Over the past few months, hundreds of South Africa’s approximately 6,19-million registered Facebook users have become the victims of cloning. This practice, which is also known as deep mining, is when cybercriminals lift a user’s name and profile picture from their...
Aug 27, 2013
Although many biometric-based security solutions fall short of the mark when it comes to overall protection and serving as a credible source of evidence in law enforcement, there are characteristics that typify comprehensive offerings that should have the would-be...
