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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...