Companies in South Africa have been warned to be on alert for Information and communication technologies (ICT) security threats which are posed by hackers. Advice has been offered to adopt offensive security systems and constantly identify threats before hackers find and exploit them. IT security expert...
Kaspersky has contributed to INTERPOL’s Africa Cyber Surge Operation (ACSO) to combat cybercrime in African countries. The data company will help by sharing data, comprising of indicators of compromise (IoCs) on various cyber threats and types of cybercriminal activity targeting African countries. This evidence provided the...
Vectra AI, the leader in Security AI-driven hybrid cloud threat detection and response, has released a report on "The Evolving role of Network Detection and Response (NDR)". The report highlights why today’s security teams find it increasingly difficult to detect and stop cyber threats targeting their...
Liquid C2, a business of Cassava Technologies, has opened the doors of its first Cyber Security Fusion Centre (CSFC) in Nairobi, Kenya, making this the second centre of its kind in Africa. David Behr, CEO of Liquid C2, commented: "Kenyan businesses have seen increased digital adoption,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
