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...
NetScout takes on threat actors
Midway through June, American citizens thought the country was experiencing the world's biggest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which seemed to be taking down internet service providers, social media platforms, and online services from gaming to...
PCI DSS: how well do you know the standard?
The saying "nothing worth having comes easy..." couldn't be truer in the case of fortifying an organisation's systems and infrastructure and ensuring it meets the industry standards and compliance requirements. By Simeon Tassev, MD and qualified security assessor at...
Cyber adversaries exploit the pandemic at enormous scale
Cyber criminals are targeting remote work to gain access to enterprise networks and critical data, writes Derek Manky, chief: security insights and global threat alliances at FortiGuard Labs. The first six months of 2020 witnessed an unprecedented cyber threat...
Kaspersky expands product portfolio for security researchers
Kaspersky sandboxing technology is now available for use in customer networks. The on-premises Kaspersky Research Sandbox is designed for organisations with strict restrictions on data sharing, to enable them to build their internal security operations centers (SOCs)...