Digital security for the new entrepreneur

As South Africa’s entrepreneurial spirit blossoms, digital security is more important than ever, warns Steve Flynn, sales and marketing director at ESET Southern Africa. The pandemic fundamentally changed the working world forever. Not only are more employees working...

Why don’t BRICS relationships extend to the cyber realm?

While informal collectives of ‘friendly’ nations, like the BRICS group, have met several times to discuss ways of co-operating on the global state over the years, these friendships do often have their limits. This is evident where, whether by intention or omission,...

Evolving business environment makes security more complex

With South Africa ranked the sixth most affected country in the world when it comes to cybercrime, companies and consumers must do more to protect themselves from cyber-attacks. Most recently, a new piece of ransomware, which targets healthcare and education and has...

How vendors and attackers are still exploiting FUD

The statistics make for worrying reading. According to the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2022, 97% of South African companies experienced an outage due to a cyberattack in the past 12 months. Of those, almost nine in 10 (86%) suffered a ransomware attack. By...

Are your Excel spreadsheets a cybersecurity risk?

The use of spreadsheets in accounting and finance departments has vastly improved data analysis and enabled fast and accurate reporting, computing and information storage. Life without them is almost unthinkable. However, danger lurks within and although the use of...

With growing threats, CISOs change their posture to proactive

Every CISO and IT security professional knows that cyber risks are exploding, with cybercrime syndicates becoming increasingly aggressive and sophisticated. To their credit, security execs are putting out fires and putting mitigation measures in place as fast as they...