SOTRU bridges the gap to stop supplier fraud
South African verification and secure communication platform SOTRU Identity and Communications aims to tackle a fraud problem that traditional KYC and KYB checks were never built to solve: impersonation and payment fraud that happens after a supplier has been...
Vumacam helps recover hijacked vehicle in Alexandra
A hijacked vehicle was successfully recovered in Alexandra following a swift, coordinated response supported by Vumacam Proof and local law enforcement teams. The incident began when an eyewitness, who was stuck in traffic, captured video footage of a reported...
Finalists for SAS CTF qualifiers announced
Kaspersky has announced eight finalists of this year’s SAS CTF qualifying round, the company’s annual competition for professional CTF players and seasoned security experts, that outperformed more than 1 100 participants. With the winners advancing now to the offline...
Managed firewalls positioned as active protection
South African organisations are increasingly dependent on connected systems, cloud platforms, remote access, and digital customer service. Yet many still treat firewall protection as something configured once and revisited only when there is a problem. IPT, a managed...
Security in the post-Mythos era
The fundamentals you ignored are the only things that will save you, writes Yuri Kramarz, principal engineer at Cisco Talos. In 2023, a colleague and I wrote a cybersecurity guide for businesses of any size. It was not glamorous work. Nobody was asking for another...
Check Point and Illumio expand partnership
Check Point Software Technologies and Illumio have expanded their strategic partnership to help organisations defend against a new category of threat: frontier AI models capable of autonomously executing full-scale attacks at machine speed. "Security teams are being...
Data loss prevention needs a rethink in the age of AI
For many years, data loss prevention was treated as a control that could be applied to known systems, users, and routes. Sensitive information could be identified through patterns, rules, classifications, or fingerprints, and policies could be applied to prevent it...
For real cybersecurity, close off endpoint gaps
While much C-level attention is focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) growing at a record pace, with key metrics doubling within months, there is a risk of many cyber threats going unnoticed. By Adriaan Venter, CEO of Cube ICT Solutions AI is the technological...
Cisco unveils agentic platform for critical IT infrastructure
In an agentic AI world, organisations must act and defend at machine speed and scale. Cisco Cloud Control, unveiled at Cisco Live, is a unified platform built for humans and AI agents to manage, monitor and defend critical IT infrastructure — and the foundation for...
It is not the cyber breach that costs you, but what happens next
In South Africa, cybersecurity breaches have become routine. The country ranks in the top 20 globally for cybercrime, with human error still behind the vast majority of incidents. By Andy Robb, technical officer at Duxbury Networking The financial impact is equally...
Cyber defences must be ready for planned digital IDs
South Africa is on the cusp of a digital revolution that promises to end the era of ‘the system is down’. By Doros Hadjizenonos, regional director: southern Africa at Fortinet The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) recently gazetted draft regulations for a...
Why Mythos is a problem for legacy code, not for cybersecurity vendors
In July 1851, an American locksmith named Alfred Charles Hobbs sat down in an upstairs room at Joseph Bramah's Piccadilly shop with a padlock that had hung in the window for sixty-one years, beneath a standing offer of two hundred guineas to anyone who could open it...