Arcserve UDP adds protection to Office 365
Arcserve Southern Africa has revealed why third-party protection is essential for companies deploying Office 365. "It is a common market misconception that Office 365 applications are safeguarded from external cyber threats," says Byron Horn Botha, Arcserve Southern...
Check Point redefines secure remote access
Check Point Software Technologies has announced the acquisition of a new cloud-based technology that delivers secure remote access created by Odo Security. The technology will integrate with Check Point's Infinity architecture, and become the easiest and most secure...
Businesses lag in cyber protection
As of mid-February, about 4,7-million US employees were working remotely. The social distancing measures introduced in March caused that number to surge dramatically. According to Gallup, the percentage of full-time employees working from home due to Covid-19 jumped...
Keep your business safe from cybercrime
Garmin and Twitter recently joined the ranks of a string of global organisations that have fallen victim to crippling cyberattacks. By Byron Gibson, product manager at Seacom A little closer to home, last year, the City of Johannesburg's network was also hacked and...
Pandemic spurs need for digital ID
Digital ID systems, a prerequisite for developing functional e-governance platforms, have been on the agendas of many emerging economies for quite some time. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has reemphasized the importance of eIDs in providing social, medical and...
What recent data breaches tell us about cybersecurity in SA
The past couple of months should lay to rest any doubt over whether South African organisations are under sustained attack from cybercriminals. By Brian Pinnock, cybersecurity expert at Mimecast Over the past three months we've seen well-known local healthcare and...
Arcserve’s Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution for Office 365 debuts
Arcserve Southern Africa has announced the availability of Arcserve's UDP for the SA market aimed at the protection of MS 365. According to Byron Horn-Botha, lead: channel and partnership at Arcserve Southern Africa, there is remarkable complacency and incorrect...
Cyber defense in an era of digital dependency
One of the most significant implications of the Covid-19 pandemic is the global shift to dependency on the digital economy. Constellated workplaces have opened up unprecedented technological risks such as unsecured devices, shadow IT and unregulated internet access,...
Western Digital adds ArmorLock platform
Western Digital has introduced the ArmorLock Security Platform, designed to help with the diverse security demands of data-centric and content-critical storage use cases in industries as varied as finance, government, healthcare, IT enterprise, legal, and media and...
Online scams capitalise on job losses, pandemic disruption
Scammers worldwide have been exploiting people's fears of lost jobs and income during the Covid-19 lockdown, by using phishing mails, fake websites and social media to extract personal information, spread malicious software or defraud unsuspecting victims. By Anna...
Sophos adds cloud visibility features
Sophos has announced that Intercept X for Server Advanced with EDR has been enhanced with powerful cloud visibility features from Cloud Optix. This integration gives customers critical insights into their wider cloud environments, including security groups, hosts,...
Strengthen information security while working remotely
Many people and companies have transformed the way they work. By Bianca Dafel, security lead at Dell Technologies South Africa To stay productive, they must work remotely with different devices ranging from desktops and laptops to smartphones and tablets. All these...