Tips for women on building a career in cybersecurity
Representation of women in the cybersecurity industry has grown over the past years and, while this is positive, there is still room for improvement. Growth and success in this area requires that everyone work together to amplify but this is easier said than done. How...
A collaborative model for security
Successfully co-sourcing security infrastructure involves overcoming key barriers to establish a strong relationship based on shared responsibility, writes Tris Morgan, director of global advisory at BT. Following the disruption of 2020, it's important that security...
Product security is critical to cyber security
By Herman Kannenberg, Head of Legal Affairs and Cyber Security, Huawei South Africa - If you follow the news, you'll have noticed that there has been a significant uptick in the number of cybersecurity-related articles and stories lately. This is because cyber-attacks...
How Huawei uses its product security baseline in business processes
By Herman Kannenberg, Head of Legal Affairs and Cyber Security, Huawei South Africa - As ICT technologies evolve and enriches our lives, we're also seeing growing challenges to cyber security and privacy protection. Cyber security and privacy protection are the...
Beat cybercriminals at their own game with AI technology
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is a powerful technology, and because of this, it holds great potential for exploitation by cybercriminals. By Derek Manky, chief: security insights and global threat alliances at Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs Considering this, the...
How to fight the new deepfake threat
After ransomware, the next mean-spirited genie to escape the cybercrime bottle will most likely be deepfakes: audio and video material, maliciously created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) for manipulation and fraud purposes. By Chris Mayers, chief...
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...