IDC ranks data protection vendors

CommVault, EMC, and Symantec are leaders in the European data protection and recovery software market, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) vendor assessment and market analysis study profiling and ranking the leading providers in the data...

Improve security to unleash IT

Every day we’re bombarded with news about the latest data breach. Unfortunately, the headlines we all read confirm findings in Symantec’s recent Internet Security Threat Report: the threat from hackers is not only growing, but also evolving. Today’s cyber security...

Protecting profits with risk management

South African executives are well aware of the importance of risk management in every area of their businesses. Unfortunately, most are of the view that reacting to attacks after the fact is an acceptable form of managing risk. “Reacting to risk is simply admitting...

Sophos announces Server Protection

Sophos has announced Sophos Server Protection, an easy to use and flexible server antivirus solution that protects data without sacrificing performance. It is the latest entry in Sophos’ solution set that provides complete security for servers, the network and...

Beefing up network security

Thanks to evolving technology, even small businesses collect vast amounts of data these days. This includes the systems logs that are constantly being generated by servers, apps and other network systems. “Let’s take a bank as an example. At the backend, all the...