SMBs are easy targets for hackers

For the average small to medium sized enterprise, which faces the exact same IT security challenges as large enterprises, buying and maintaining countless point solutions to address security threats in what is really a reactive patchwork manner is an expensive...

Fear of cyber-threats leaves systems exposed

Recent publicity about cyber-attacks and data security breaches has increased IT risk awareness among CIOs, chief information security officers (CISOs) and senior business executives. However, Gartner’s 2013 Global Risk Management Survey found that fear of...

Addressing the evolving cybercrime threat

Cybercrime is costing businesses, and not just in terms of the bottom line. Compliance infringement is hugely expensive, made doubly so by the fact that compliance is hard to achieve, as many data breaches can be due to third party blunders. It is also quite a...

Nedbank responds to Dexter breach

South African financial institutions are notoriously tight-lipped about any kind of security breaches, but Nedbank is the first of the country’s major banks to acknowledge this week’s Dexter malware attack and to issue a statement on it. The malware is alleged to have...

Android users lax on security

More than 50% of Android-based smartphone and tablet owners do not use any security software to protect their devices against cyber-threats, despite the platform being the most popular among cybercriminals. According to a recent survey conducted by B2B International...