In today's digital landscape, organisations face a constant barrage of cyber threats. Traditional perimeter-based security measures are no longer sufficient in safeguarding sensitive data and critical assets. As businesses continue to evolve and adopt cloud-based technologies, a proactive and comprehensive approach to cybersecurity becomes imperative. Enter...
Doros Hadjizenonos, regional director for Southern Africa at Fortinet, believes that young South Africans can benefit from the current cyber security skills gap and turn it into a lucrative and satisfying profession. “Employers around the world are actively seeking cyber security professionals with a range of...
American-Irish Multinational power management company Eaton revealed new infrastructure solutions to facilitate cooperation with African Partners. General Manager for Morocco and West Africa at American-Irish multinational power management firm Eaton - Kassem Benhaddou, underlined the importance of green energy and e-mobility strategies for Morocco and North...
Africa's cybersecurity marketplace is still in its infancy, with incredible potential for growth, however controversial app TikTok is now sweeping across Africa's youths, being downloaded to phones across the continent on mass. TikTok, created in 2016 by Chinese company ByteDance, became the world’s most downloaded app...
Artificial intelligence (AI) removes the human component of reacting to a cybersecurity threat. Machine learning and pattern recognition, when combined with the mass amounts of data that can train artificial intelligence, which is located across the cyber landscape - and in particular the Internet of Things...
According to KnowBe4 Africa, companies should be prepared to adopt a 'security in depth' approach. The company's SVP of Content Strategy and Evangelist, Anna Collard, believes this vital a ransomware and cyberthreats are becoming more invasive and complex. Collard's description of 'security in depth' refers to...
A new cybercrime campaign has targeted the African banking sector, using fake emails with job opportunities to steal data. Through HTML files that link to fake websites, malware is hidden. The user is prompted to download an ISO file which is smuggling a visual basic script...
A poll by Knowbe4 shows only one in five people in Africa are concerned with cybercrime. Yet, despite this we know that as technology advances across Africa, new windows are opening for hackers to compromise organisations and individuals. Employees from various sectors in Ghana, Egypt, Botswana...
The META region will remain a target for increased cybercriminal activity, according to the experts at Kaspersky. Data collected from the Kaspersky Security network shows that between January and September 2022, every third user in the META region was affected by both online and offline threats....
Credence Security – a pan-EMEA specialty value-added-distributer and its sister companies, Cyber Security South Africa and Cyber Security Africa Distribution, have been consolidated under a unified brand identity called Trinexia. Vivian Gevers, Chief Operations Officer, Trinexia, said, "We are confident that in this new chapter, we...
