Cybersecurity emerging as critical to business continuity and growth in 2021
As business leaders review and consolidate many of the dramatic operational and workforce changes that were implemented in response to the health crisis, cybersecurity is coming to the fore as a major risk to business continuity. By Sebastiaan Rothman, cloud solutions...
Top cybersecurity challenges for 2021
Digitalisation is impacting nearly every single aspect of our lives. There is not only a rapid adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence tools, but everyone is becoming more dependent on software, hardware and cloud infrastructure. By John Mc Loughlin,...
Trends shaping the cybersecurity outlook for 2021
Everything is different, and yet the same. As we look ahead to the cybersecurity landscape in the next 12 months, it is from a position no one predicted this time last year. By Tom Kellerman, head of cybersecurity strategy at VMware Carbon Black Business operations...
Expect behavioural analytics, data hoarding and government crackdowns on encryption in 2021
2020 demonstrated how overwhelmingly important a connected infrastructure and digital services have become for the daily functioning of society. This realisation has led to a shift in attitudes to privacy and the way citizens, organisations and governments perceive...
Top IT security threats in 2021
A tipping point for passwords, cloud jacking to emerge as a new risk, and zero trust will be the default position, as cyber risk grows dramatically in 2021. By Anna Collard, senior vice-president: content strategy & evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa Looking to the year...
Managed Detection and Response Services – An Effective Defense to Knockout Sophisticated Cyberattacks
Modern Organizations of all Sizes Can Rest Easy with Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR) Services that Offer 24/7 Threat Hunting, Detection and Response Capabilities By Pieter Nel, Regional Head - SADC at Sophos (www.sophos.com) The accelerated adoption of cloud,...
Complexity still cybersecurity’s worst enemy
Multi-vendor security environments and an unmanageable number of security alerts are causing cybersecurity fatigue in IT security specialists, and harming organisations' ability to protect themselves. By Fady Younes, cybersecurity director: Middle East & Africa at...
Ransomware epidemic is raging
Ransomware is, by multiple measures, the top cyber threat facing businesses today, with damages caused including downtime costs and recovery time. Current incident statistics are sobering: Every eleven seconds, a company will be hit by a ransomware attack in 2021. The...
A different approach to security
With worldwide cybersecurity spending expected to approach $42-billion by the end of this year, businesses are increasingly turning their attention to solutions that feature integrated protection. By Karl Fischer, DevOps team lead at Obsidian Systems The proliferation...
Top IT security threats in 2021
A tipping point for passwords, cloud jacking to emerge as a new risk, and zero trust will be the default position, as cyber risk grows dramatically in 2021. By Anna Collard, senior vice-president: content strategy and evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa Looking to the year...
Human fallibility the weakest link in cyber security
If the South African financial industry, and indeed the public at large, can learn one thing from the 2020 data breach at credit information agency Experian, it should be this: human fallibility is still the weakest link in the fight against cyberattacks. By Yash...
Cybersecurity trends to watch in 2021
In 2020, the world changed overnight in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. As more organisations adopted and accelerated digital strategies - and with most of us relying on the internet to go about our everyday life - cybercriminals were presented with a huge range of...