If you don’t know where your people are, you don’t have a risk strategy
In April 2024, when 18 months’ worth of rain fell on Dubai in a single day, more than 1 200 flights had to be cancelled, stranding over 250 000 travellers in terminals. Late last year, Cyclone Ditwah wreaked havoc in Sri Lanka during peak tourist season, forcing mass...
Robust data protection strategies must underpin Africa’s data centre ecosystem
As Africa accelerates its digital transformation, local data centres are becoming critical enablers that bring cloud services closer to users, reduce latency and support compliance with data sovereignty laws. By Mohammed Sayed, head of technical operations at Data...
Organisations fail to prepare adequately for cyberattacks
It’s an all too familiar occasion in all offices when the fire alarm sounds and an official announces it is a drill, followed by a collective sigh instead of engagement. People slowly stand up, grab their coffees and smartphones, and shuffle toward the fire escape...
Data backups could be as much of a risk as they are a hedge against breaches
If you walked into a corporate headquarters and saw filing cabinets overflowing into the hallways, blocking fire exits and spilling confidential contracts onto the lobby floor, you would be furious with the office manager. Yet this is happening in the digital...
Arctic Wolf introduces a financial risk-focused Security Operations Warranty
Arctic Wolf has launched its Security Operations Warranty in South Africa. This warranty offers financial support to organisations during cyber incidents, helping to reduce the financial impact. It shows Arctic Wolf’s commitment to making cybersecurity a key part of...
Veeam’s Agent Commander confront agentic AI risk at enterprise scale
Veeam Software has launched Agent Commander, a unified solution to help organisations safely detect AI risk, protect AI systems, and undo AI mistakes, empowering them to proactively address AI-driven risks and securely scale AI agents everywhere. The first integration...
Resilience debt: The silent risk undermining cyber recovery
Organisations have spent the last decade strengthening prevention capabilities by deploying advanced firewalls, endpoint protections, identity controls, and now AI-powered threat detection. By Musa Masungwini, data protector and cyber defender at Dell Technologies...
Money mule activity amplifies fraud risks for global businesses
Mules are the backbone of digital banking fraud. Fraudsters depend on them to make their schemes work, turning innocent-looking accounts into tools for laundering stolen funds and enabling criminals to conceal their tracks and move vast sums of money across borders in...
FMD and AGOA: Farm workers are the ultimate gatekeepers of SA’s R80bn recovery
South Africa is currently walking a high-stakes tightrope. As we enter February 2026, the agricultural sector faces a perfect storm where domestic animal health emergencies and international trade politics have become inextricably linked. By Merel van der Lei, CEO of...
Strengthen cybersecurity through smarter vendor risk management
Vendor risk management has shifted from an administrative task to a strategic discipline, which shapes how well organisations protect themselves. By Ryan Boyes, governance, risk and compliance officer at Galix Many businesses rely heavily on third parties for...
Can cyber insurance protect from AI-powered criminals?
Cyber insurance was created for a world where most incidents looked familiar. It used to be all about ransomware, data breaches, business email compromises, or even outages. By Yaron Assabi, founder of eInsurer And, while many security incidents will continue to start...
Prominent risks that emerged in SA in 2025
As South Africa’s short-term insurance landscape continued to evolve in 2025, PSG Insure observed several persistent and emerging risks affecting local businesses. This is the word from Ryno de Kock, head of distribution at PSG Insure. By reviewing some of these...