Secure your network from all angles
Making your network safe from the traditional north to south perspective is no longer enough. In a digital world, micro-segmentation that secures it from east to west is also vital. In the modern era of cyber-crime, ransomware and digital threat vectors, your...
Cybersecurity: businesses building walls to defend against nuclear attacks
While the growing number of data breaches and cyber attacks on companies shows that organisations are often not adequately equipped to protect themselves against such threats, privacy regulations being rolled out in many countries, such as GDPR in Europe and PoPIA in...
What you need to know about cryptocurrency
Criminals have kept pace with changing technologies by no longer wanting their crimes to generate hard cash - bitcoin has become the currency of choice. By Doros Hadjizenonos, regional sales manager at Fortinet That's particularly true for cybercrime, where ransomware...
What to do if you’re hit with a ransomware attack
Ransomware attacks have increased in volume, morphing and evolving through the years, especially recently, into the debilitating attacks we see today. By Anthony Giandomenico, practice director: digital forensics and incident response at Fortinet, and Aamir Lakhani,...
How much critical data do your work from home employees access?
Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, South African organisations too, have taken drastic steps to ensure the safety of their employees By Claude Langley, regional sales manager: Africa for extended access technologies at HID Global When the very first lockdown...
Understand the full impact of cybercrime
Multiple threat vectors and variable threat actors, and, perhaps most worrying, repeated attacks on companies by cyber-crime pose a serious risk to organisations small and large alike. According to the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2021, one-in-six of all firms...
Sophos acquires Capsule8
Sophos has acquired Capsule8, a pioneer of runtime visibility, detection and response for Linux production servers and containers covering on-premise and cloud workloads. Founded in 2016, Capsule8 is privately held and headquartered in New York. "Sophos already...
SMS firewalls the golden standard gateway for securing A2P SMS
Despite the influx of over the top (OTT) messaging solutions in recent years, application-to- person (A2P) SMS messaging remains the most widely used channel by businesses across the African region. SMS reach, ease of use and guaranteed high ROI are top reasons for...
Cyber threats on the rise in mining and manufacturing
Increasingly companies are looking to adopt smart technologies to optimise production and decision-making in order to create businesses of the future. However, as reliance on autonomous and digital technology grows, so too does the risk of cyber-attacks. As...
Navigating internet usage and safety against digital predators
Unfortunately, we face a grim reality around sexual abuse online against children. The question remains: How can parents identify and address the problem and how do we better navigate internet usage and safety for our children? By Richard Frost, head of network and...
Automation and AI in security: what’s the big deal?
In 1988, a Cornell University graduate student named Robert Morris wanted to measure the size of the Internet. He wrote a program that could spread across a network, install itself on machines, and then Morris would count the instances. From that, the now-infamous...
Inside the mind of a cyber criminal
Cyber criminals come in many different flavours, but the majority of them are in it for one thing: financial pay-off. They want the money that comes with offering their tools or services, selling stolen data, extortion like ransomware or plain fraud. And they all have...