As personal, commercial and government activities continue to migrate to the digital realm, so do criminals. Cybersecurity is increasingly becoming a concern among corporate leadership, including boards of directors, with large-scale cyber-attacks becoming...
Since human error has a well-documented history of causing many breaches, no organisation can afford to overlook the importance of ensuring that its employees are aware of online dangers. This is why Juan Manuel Harán, Security Editor at ESET, has...
‘Everyone prepares for battle in their way’, says Janet Morris, American fiction and non-fiction author, best known for her fantasy and science fiction as well as her production of a non-lethal weapons concept for the US military, and generally people are...
November 7, 2019 •
Security, Top Stories •
Jenna Cook •
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“South Africa is really starting to feel the heat from cyber-attacks from across the globe,” begins Tanja Kokot, director at BroadVision Technologies. “Any organisation that wants to be effective at preventing cyber-attacks needs to look at each and...
November 5, 2019 •
Security •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on The Cost of Cyber Crime to Business
In 2019, it is reported that cyber-crime breaches are up 11% year on year and has increased with over 67% in the last five years, according to a study done by Accenture in their Ninth Annual Cost of Cybercrime Global Study. Some countries are seeing...
November 4, 2019 •
Security, Sponsored •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Phishing season is around the corner – don’t take the bait!
The season for serious shopping is almost upon us – and with it comes the problems of phishing and fraud. As the annual holiday and related shopping season begins – traditionally ramping up in October and finally ending in January –...
November 2, 2019 •
Digital Transformation, People •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Can technology companies assist the public sector in reaching 4IR goals?
Predictions about technology are speculative at best. Even recently we saw two of our planet’s brightest and most successful minds, Jack Ma and Elon Musk, disagree fundamentally about where technology is leading us. They were specifically debating...
October 31, 2019 •
Security, Top Stories •
Jenna Cook •
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Everyone nowadays is connected to the Internet and has by now probably settled into some online routines: we all have such habits as checking our e-mails and social media pages first thing in the morning and consider these rituals healthy and harmless....
October 30, 2019 •
General, Security •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Three best-practice measures in the event of a data breach
We’ve all heard the famous prophecy that states: if we fail to prepare then we must prepare to fail. This statement is never more relevant than in the event of a data breach. In today’s climate of global connectivity where businesses’ core applications...
On Tuesday, 22 October 2019, ESET – an internet security company – unveiled the latest version of ESET NOD32 Antivirus, ESET Internet Security (EIS) and ESET Smart Security Premium (ESSP). These upgrades cover multiplatform integration, advanced...
October 22, 2019 •
Sponsored •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Do you know what’s lurking in your network…? And other issues to think about during Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Is there a ghost in your machine? And no, this is not the beginning of a Halloween story – but perhaps it is fitting that ‘International Cybersecurity Awareness month’ takes place in October, the month of Halloween. So says Stefan van de Giessen,...
October 22, 2019 •
Security, Southern Africa •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on KnowBe4 Africa expands continental reach thanks to Cyber Security Africa partnership
Security awareness training company, KnowBe4 Africa announced on Monday, 21 October 2019, that has chosen Cyber Security Africa as its African distributor. The company says it aims to make access to its cybersecurity awareness training platform easier for...
September 25, 2019 •
Security, Sponsored •
Fundi Maseko •
Comments Off on Fighting the new heist frontiers of cyberspace with multi-faceted solutions
South Africans are unfortunately used to the idea of cash-in-transit heists and on-premises bank robberies, but in today’s increasingly connected world, the thefts of the future are already here. The risks of attacks on financial institutions’ security...
August 16, 2019 •
Security, Top Stories •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Cyber exposure company launches new network monitoring innovations
Cyber exposure company, Tenable announced the launch of their new product innovations Tenable.sc and Tenable.io on Thursday, 15 August 2019. These products aim to continuously discover and assess known and unknown assets across on-premises and cloud...
August 16, 2019 •
Security •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Kaspersky announces opening of first Transparency Centre in Asia
Global security company, Kaspersky announced the opening of its first Transparency Centre in Asia Pacific on Thursday, 15 August 2019. This is the third facility of its kind launched by Kaspersky. Similarly, in Zurich and Madrid, the Transparency Centre...
August 12, 2019 •
Security •
Fundi Maseko •
Comments Off on Traditional anti-virus and mail scanner solutions still miss myriad threats
The average office worker spends up to 80 per cent collaborating with their managers and colleagues using tools such as instant messaging, Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive which in most cases lack adequate security, this is according to Maor Hizkiev, CTO and...
