AI changes the speed and scale of cyber risks, but not the fundamentals
For all the uncertainty surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), one thing remains certain – its impact on the security landscape. Where enterprises are concerned, this is true on two very important fronts, writes Chris Mulder, senior solutions architect at Red Hat....
Unsanctioned AI tools are a pervasive risk to the business
Security teams cannot secure what they don’t know is there, writes Richard Frost, head of technology solutions and consulting at Armata Cyber Security. Shadow AI has become one of the most prevalent forms of shadow IT in 2026, with unsanctioned AI tools adopted by...
What your email gateway may not be seeing
I do not think most organisations are ignoring email security, writes Michael Currie, director at The Cloud Crew. They have filters, policies, awareness training, endpoint protection, and often a secure email gateway that has been in place for years. Attackers know...
The costly cybersecurity mistake isn’t the click – it’s the silence that follows
An employee clicks on a suspicious link, realises something is wrong and decides not to tell anyone. They might be embarrassed or worried about getting into trouble. Meanwhile, the security team has no idea that something may have happened, losing valuable time to...
Cybersecurity awareness needs to catch up with a workforce that is no longer human
Every October, security awareness campaigns quite rightly return to people. We remind employees to be suspicious of unexpected requests, protect their credentials, question unusual MFA prompts and think carefully before giving an application access to company data. I...
Build a security culture that lasts
Cybersecurity training remains one of the most persistent challenges in corporate South Africa, not because organisations don’t invest in it, but because too many still treat it as a once-off exercise. Ticking a compliance box and moving on. The result? Employees...
Sophos launches AI Defense
Sophos has announced the general availability of Sophos AI Defense, which finds the AI tools employees and applications are using, including the ones security teams never approved, and enforces policy wherever they run. Every AI tool an organisation can’t see is a...
Peer pressure works on AI agents
In July 2026, AI agents being tested by OpenAI broke out of their test environment and into Hugging Face’s production systems. Hundreds of them had found a way to leave notes for each other in a shared software cache, turned it into a makeshift message board, and...
SA businesses are building with AI faster than they can secure it
AI is making it possible for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to build customer-facing software without a traditional development team. As more business owners use the technology to create booking systems, customer portals and online stores, securing the...
Owning the security tools is not the same as being secure
Most companies believe they are protected right up until they have been breached. So why do the tools create a false sense of safety, and what closes the gap between tools and actual security, asks Mohammed Pochee, cybersecurity product manager at Vox. There is a...
Your supplier has a password. Your business has the problem
Your cyber security is only as strong as the people you've allowed through the door, and some of those people don't work for you. That is the uncomfortable reality of third-party risk. By John Mc Loughlin, CEO of J2 Software Modern businesses depend on IT providers,...
There’s a widening gap between Zero Trust strategy and implementation
South African organisations are under growing pressure to digitise, innovate and compete in a more connected economy. Yet every new cloud workload, SaaS application and remote connection has the potential to expand the attack surface, writes Mandy Duncan, country...