When should users buy into the cloud?

Companies face important IT challenges today. Not only do they have to deploy and run their business applications with agility, their infrastructures need to scale to support growth while maintaining quality of service – all in a cost-efficient manner, says Richard...

SA companies must reign in mobiles in 2014

Mobile security and device management will become one of the top challenges for South African companies as attacks on smartphones and tablets are likely to increase again in 2014. So says Richard Broeke, a consultant at leading IT security company, Securicom. “Reports...

Mobile: companies lag behind customers

Companies worldwide are quickly realising that mobile has not only changed digital operations, but that it will fundamentally change entire businesses in decades to come. 2014 will be an incremental year on this journey, as companies increase investments to transform...
Malware booms in 2013

Malware booms in 2013

The overall global Internet threat level grew by 6,9 percentage points in 2013 – with 41,6% of  computers being the victim of an attack at least once. In order to conduct all these attacks over the Internet in 2013, cybercriminals used 10 604 273 unique hosts, which...

Most companies came under attack in 2013

Companies are increasingly falling victim to cyber-attacks, with 91% having suffered an attack at least once in the last year. According to a recent survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, 9% of these were the victims of targeted attacks –...