South Africans urged to protect IP

World Intellectual Property Day, celebrated worldwide on 26 April, is a day where people are reminded of the greater role ideas and creativity have on the society and economy at large.  Intellectual property (IP) theft and piracy is a problem common to all countries...

SA companies are unprotected

Microsoft TechEd, Durban – One in every four computers in South Africa is running unprotected, without up-to-date realtime antivirus or anti-malware protection – and without this vital protection layer, these systems are five times more likely to be infected...

McAfee leads in advanced threat protection

McAfee has announced that it has received high marks from NSS Labs in two recently published corporate endpoint protection reports.  McAfee’s core endpoint anti-malware products (McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention and McAfee Site...

Firms still losing out to malware

In 2012, 35% of companies lost data because of malware attacks – and 25% lost business data due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. According to Kaspersky Labs, the top business risks during the year were: * 50% of companies agree that cyber-threats are the...

Large organisations not ready for POPI

The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) will soon be enacted into South African law and the latest draft has already been passed by the national assembly. However, many large and well-known organisations are not even attending to some of the basics of...