Turn your employees into human firewalls

Cyber-security is a term on every businessperson’s mind, as the legal, financial and reputational implications of a breach are massive. The challenge is that, while a company can implement the best cyber-security technologies, the biggest threat to a firm remains its...

Recover from cyberattacks in minutes – not days, weeks or months

As cyberattacks continue to rise, enterprise storage cyber resilience and data protection is essential for enterprises – it is a matter of when and not if an enterprise will suffer from a cyberattack. By Hayden Sadler, country manager for South Africa at Infinidat The...

Zero-day vulnerabilities need more than just a patch

WatchGuard Threat Lab’s recent Internet Security Report cites that 78% of zero-day malware threats evade basic detection.  This trend was also seen in previous quarters, which makes a solid case for taking immediate step to safeguard organisations against zero-day...

Security versus functionality: how to avoid an end user revolt

One of the biggest challenges facing any chief information security office (CISO) today is a term we call end user revolt – when users circumvent all security measures and protocols in order to do their jobs. By Wayne Olsen, managing executive: cybersecurity at...

Recognise, report and prevent phishing

One significant finding published in Fortinet’s 1H 2022 FortiGuard Labs Threat Report is that ransomware is rampant. By: Aamir Lakhani, global security strategist and researcher and Rob Rashotte, vice-president: global training and technical field enablement at...

So many needles. One giant haystack

Cyber security is exhausting. It keeps worried security analysts awake at night. Will there be a zero-day that they couldn’t have predicted? Will someone use a terrible password that leads to a terrible hack? It also constantly harasses security operations...