The importance of XDR for cyber protection
With 35% of South African organisations expecting an imminent cyberattack and a further 31% bracing for it to happen within a year, according to local research conducted by Trend Micro, attention is turning to whether existing solutions are up to the challenge of...
Enhance cybersecurity practices
October is cybersecurity month and to promote cybersecurity awareness, Steven Cohen, MD of Triple S Solutions, a full-service information technology business, offers the following nine simple but important points to stay safe. * Companies sending invoices should make...
The new cyber-norm
Today is D-Day for banks and the City of Johannesburg to pay ransom demands sent through by hackers last week. Bryan Hamman, Regional Director at NETSCOUT, which offers NETSCOUT Arbor, specialising in advanced DDos protection solutions, offers this explanation of DDoS...
Security spend on the rise
The global cybersecurity market is booming, the demand for cybersecurity solutions is huge and security spend has already started outpacing IT spend. Adoption in South Africa is not yet growing at the same rate, but there is a strong growth in interest and...
Protect yourself on business trips
Business executives who are keepers of secrets of the company are high-priority targets for cyber espionage. Especially, when traveling, precautionary measures - including those outside the world of IT - are essential, and they must be accompanied by an awareness of...
Do you know what’s lurking in your network?
Is there a ghost in your machine? And no, this is not the beginning of a Halloween story - but perhaps it is fitting that 'International Cybersecurity Awareness month' takes place in October, the month of Halloween. This is according to Stefan van de Giessen, GM:...
What caused the Capital One leak?
Earlier this year, the US credit card provider Capital One suffered one of the most jarring data leaks of the last decade. Sensitive financial data from over 106-million customers had been stolen and made freely accessible on the web for weeks. Now, recent analyses...
AI the perfect cyber defence partner
Building a safe future for business' critical data requires a collaborative effort between machine learning capabilities and traditional human decision-making. By Alex Healing, senior researcher: future cyber defence at BT In a climate where Internet of Things (IoT)...
Watch your perimeter
Imagine being able to detect if an intruder is attempting to breach the perimeter of a property in a remote location? Imagine knowing that your fence can detect the intrusion, notifying the authorities and preventing the intruders from getting any closer to their end...
Securing abandoned mines
In mineral-rich South Africa, mining is an important part of the GDP employing nearly half a million people. Vanessa Tyne, senior KAM and team lead at Axis Considering that the sector consists of diamonds, gold, platinum, and coal, it is easy to understand why local...
African trust centre launches cyber division
LAWtrust has launched a new division focusing on cyber security services to complement its identity, encryption and digital signature offerings to support customers in the ongoing battle for improved digital security. "LAWtrust has traditionally been focused on...
Actionable intelligence essential for cyber defence
With each new breach making headlines, it is becoming clearer and clearer that yesterday's defences are no match for today's attacks. The growing popularity of cloud services, mobile devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) is widening the attack surface, and targeted...