Collaboration key to combat medical aid fraud
Healthcare fraud, waste and abuse are some of the most complex forms of financial fraud to detect, monitor and prevent because the perpetrators are at every level of the delivery chain from healthcare providers at the top to policy holders at the bottom with many...
Businesses use trade credit to secure debtors
With South Africa's current economic and trade environment remaining constrained and unpredictable, businesses are increasingly recognising the benefits of trade credit insurance to protect their bottom line. Trade credit insurance protects a business against the risk...
Data breaches are a part of doing business
Data has become the lifeblood of modern life as everything from room temperatures and health records to banking details and WhatsApp messages are collected and stored. The rapid digital transformation of businesses and services has created an unprecedented amount of...
Online banking fraud – consumers have a say
Incidents of online banking fraud continue to rise in South Africa as more consumers become comfortable with transacting on the internet. While cyber fraudsters are known to target companies - or financial institutions - in order to steal larger amounts, individuals...
Tips to see your business through 2017
The beginning of the year is the perfect opportunity to give your business insurance portfolio a good review and clean-up. When you're in the thick of running your business, and tending to day-to-day work responsibilities, it's easy to leave aspects such as insurance...
CA strengthens security
CA Southern Africa has announced the new release of CA Technologies, CA Identity Suite, that includes integration with CA Privileged Access Manager for governance of privileged accounts. Features include new, flexible deployment options for agility, speed and...
Building cyber resilient businesses from the inside out
Juniper research has predicted that the rapid digitisation of consumers' lives and enterprise records will increase the cost of data breaches to $2,1-trillion globally by 2019, almost four times the estimated cost of global breaches in 2015. Some 4,2-billion people...
Building resilience is key to managing risk
The outcomes-based approach of King IV is a timely invitation for corporate South Africa to get better at managing risk in a world that is getting more risky by the day, says Michael Davies, CEO of ContinuitySA. Davies argues that King IV is directing organisations to...
Safeguard your business from cybercrime
From malware to phishing and from hacking to theft of data storage devices, the risks of falling victim to a security gap are continually growing, writes Anton van Heerden, executive vice-pesident for Sage Africa & Middle East. If you are an African entrepreneur,...
Data backups can save you from hackers
Over the past few years, millions of PCs from around the world have been locked or had their files encrypted as a result of devious malware. According to Kaspersky Security Bulletin, in 2015 there were 1,966,324 registered notifications for attempted malware...
Risk spikes in dispersed enterprise environment
The enterprise business is moving out from behind its firewall into a dispersed bring your own device (BYOD), Internet of things (IoT), cloud-based state. An Enterprise Mobility security strategy is important in controlling risk exposure in this new environment, to...
Prevent employees from stealing IT assets
The vast range and volume of new devices being deployed in the marketplace makes it nearly impossible for companies to safely manage and dispose of excess electronics. Most companies are oblivious to the risks associated with asset disposition and theft, failure to...