The cloud market in South Africa is predicted to grow by up to 50% next year. The prediction comes as the cloud market currently expands at around 30% per quarter. Currently, analysts estimate that half of all servers currently being shipped worldwide are being bought by...
Africa has renewed its call to be better represented at the UN Security Council. The last United Nations General Assembly saw debate focused on expanding the number of member states in the council, as well as which countries should make up its permanent members. The council...
Trellix, the cybersecurity company delivering the future of extended detection and response (XDR), has released The Threat Report: November 2022 from its Advanced Research Center, home to the world’s most elite security researchers and intelligence experts. The latest report analyses cybersecurity trends from the third quarter of...
Zimbabwe has stepped up its private security sector with retired police officers and soldiers returning to work for private security companies as armed robberies spiral out of control. The veterans are being called upon to support private security firms and the police after the authorities are...
A new report from Group-IB and Orange CERT revealed that 12 African countries lost millions of dollars to a hacking group between 2018 and 2022. The threat actor, based in an unknown French. speaking country, mainly targeted Francophone Africa and was codenamed OPERA1ER . It managed to...
The Security Watch Africa Initiative (SWAI) has asked for more intelligence sharing and synergy amongst agencies and security bodies in Africa. The call for action came as a result of discussion between Mr Patrick Agambu and Sani Usman, the SWAI President and Chief Rapporteur in Abuja. The...
Barracuda’s analysis of cyber threats detected by its XDR platform through 2022 has revealed the severity of individual attacks grew in vacation months. The data indicated that whilst the volume of attacks dipped significantly between February to May, and again between July to September, the severity...
Building on their global reselling relationship, established in 2021, Cohesity and Lenovo have now teamed up to deliver pretested and certified solutions bringing Cohesity’s modern data security and management platform on Lenovo’s ThinkSystem servers. The expanded partnership delivers validated solutions designed to protect enterprise data from...
WISeKey International Holding Ltd., a leading global cybersecurity and IoT company, has announced it will partner with Orbus Digital (part of the GAINDE 2000 Group) to deploy a complete suite of security solutions for organisations' websites based on SSL/TLS services, secured by the OISTE/WISeKey root...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the Security Council to strengthen peace operations in Africa, adding that the gains made on the continent and elsewhere were reversing. Guterres made the appeal while briefing the Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York, emphasised the need...
