Blue Coat uses Kaspersky technologies
Kaspersky Lab announced that Blue Coat’s Content Analysis System S500 includes Kaspersky Lab’s industry-leading whitelisting technology and award-winning anti-malware engine. Together, Kaspersky Lab’s whitelisting technology and anti-malware engine are designed to...
Security predictions for 2015
2014 has been particularly busy for IT security professionals. Many of the threats that we predicted at the start of the year duly emerged, while other significant issues caught the entire sector by surprise. We anticipated, and saw, increases in social engineering...
POPI and BYOD
Mobile security that complies with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) is going to be particularly challenging for organisations that have embraced BYOD. Companies need to recognise the risk within their firms, as the majority of employees use their...
Sophos expands cloud security portfolio
Sophos has announced the release of Sophos Cloud Server Protection, a high performance malware protection solution designed specifically for servers. The solution expands Sophos Cloud to a comprehensive security platform designed to protect desktops, laptops, mobile...
Advanced electronic signatures
Advanced electronic signatures (AdvESs) were provided for in the ECT Act (2002), which defines two types of signatures – electronic, and advanced electronic, says Maeson Maherry, LAWtrust. An electronic signature (ES) enables you to link an act of acceptance (signing)...
Surveillance solutions for the silly season
As the year comes to a close and South Africans slowly start to unwind, it is an unfortunate reality that criminal activity rises. Companies close and offices are deserted leaving a mecca of valuable assets up for grabs. With the three recently launched 3-megapixel...
Sophos secures Android devices
Sophos has announced the immediate availability of additional security and device management capabilities for the Android mobile platform. These simple-to-deploy, yet powerful solutions deliver mobile security for businesses of any size. IT professionals can now allow...
Kaspersky joins Hitachi alliance programme
Kaspersky Lab, the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions, has joined the Hitachi Technology Alliance Programme, a Hitachi Data Systems programme that seeks to foster synergistic combinations of partner technology with Hitachi...
Protecting a big data environment
Prevention is always better than cure when it comes to information security, particularly when dealing with today’s big data environments that see a flood of data drowning the enterprise on a daily basis. Gerald Naidoo, CEO of Logikal Consulting, says it’s not only...
DCC enhances security portfolio
Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has announced the addition of globally acclaimed FireEye Cyber Security and Malware Protection solutions and services to its comprehensive portfolio of security tools and software. FireEye is the world leader in addressing...
Kaspersky wins PC Security Labs award
Kaspersky Internet Security for Android took first place in a test of Android security products conducted by PC Security Labs, an independent Chinese company. According to the test results published this November, Kaspersky Lab’s product successfully countered 99.959%...
Camargue launches cybercrime division
As cyber security tools have become more advanced and effective, so have hackers’ efforts - so much so that cybercrime has now surpassed illegal drug trafficking as a criminal money maker and is reportedly costing SA in excess of R5,8-billion every year. According to...