The growing scourge of payment fraud in SA
Payment fraud is a critical and growing crisis in South Africa. It is costing billions of Rands annually and showing massive spikes in digital banking and mobile app fraud. Criminals are increasingly utilising advanced social engineering, AI deepfakes, and...
Mimecast unveils Agent Risk Centre and Managed Threat Response
Mimecast announced two significant platform additions at Black Hat USA 2026: the beta of Mimecast Agent Risk Centre, a new capability for discovering, monitoring, and governing AI agents across the enterprise; and Managed Threat Response, a redesigned 24/7 managed...
Identity and access management in a post-password era
Traditional password-based authentication is no longer sufficient as a standalone control for protecting business systems. By Nemanja Krstić, head of operations (AME & EU) at Galix Advances in automation and artificial intelligence have increased the effectiveness...
Tools detect threats: cyber resilience protects businesses
If your cyber security strategy is built around buying managed detection and response (MDR), deploying an endpoint detection and pesponse (EDR) agent and calling it “done”, then someone has sold you a story, not a strategy. By John Mc Loughlin, cybersecurity expert...
Act Security launches cloud security platform
Action-centric cloud security company Act Security has emerged from stealth with $60-million in total funding and the launch of its cloud security platform. AI has turned point fixes like patching into a losing strategy, flooding security teams with endless tables of...
Omnichannel communication a critical defence against digital fraud
Digital payments may be accelerating the growth of West Africa’s economy, but with new fraud tactics emerging, organisations are increasingly relying on omnichannel communication to protect both customers and brands. By Olatayo Ladipo-Ajai, country manager at Infobip...
What happens when the cyber lock fails?
For years, cybersecurity strategies have focused on a single goal: keeping attackers out. Firewalls were strengthened, access controls were tightened, and policies were stacked higher with the hope that stronger defences would guarantee safety. However, as cyber...
NetScout strengthens operational resilience for critical infrastructure
NetScout has announced continued investments in infrastructure and technology to double its Arbor Cloud DDoS attack mitigation capacity to 33 Tbps, which is aimed at keeping critical digital services available during DDoS attacks, protecting revenue-generating digital...
COFI is coming: cybersecurity challenges financial institutions must tackle now
South Africa's financial institutions face growing demands for conduct and compliance, and regulation is moving to keep pace. The Conduct of Financial Institutions (COFI) Bill, now before Parliament, will consolidate and tighten the rules the...
Threat detection is only useful when action is built in
In a Security Operations Centre (SOC), detection is measured by what happens after an alert appears on a screen. By Timothy Smith, director: sales at DigitalShield Many organisations now have tools that identify suspicious activity across endpoints, email, identity,...
What the TrendAI/Anthropic partnership means for SA
I've sat through a lot of cybersecurity announcements. Most of them follow the same script: Two vendors shake hands. A press release goes out. Yet very little on the ground changes. I understand why people tune out, writes Gareth Redelinghuys, country MD at TrendAI...
AI-native Sophos Fusion debuts
Sophos has announced Sophos Fusion, an AI-native cybersecurity defense system, built to deliver a coordinated response to AI-era threats. A cybersecurity defense system is an emerging category in the industry: a single, open architecture where every control point,...