With increasing incidents of ransomware attacks on schools and educational institutions worldwide, governments are under pressure to better protect private student data. 80% of lower education providers and 79% of higher education providers have been hit by ransomware in the last year, according to Sophos’...
Financial Software & Systems (FSS) have announced BLAZE as a platform that can process more than 5,000 transactions per second and handle the diverse needs of banking and financial institutions. BLAZE is expected to offer significant efficiency gains in terms of speed and scalability, ensure high...
Smishing is an uncommon word, but makes perfect sense when broken down into its two components - SMS Phishing. As the name implies, these are text messages which have a seemingly innocent request on them, informing you of an upcoming payment, missed payment or interruption in...
As the digital economy picks up across the continent of Africa, Head of Communication Technologies Nizar Ben Neji and Head of the Department of Science and Technology, Katie Noyes met with high-level delegates from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The meeting, which was detailed in a...
A detailed plan - the Digital Economy for Africa Initiative aims to ensure that every individual within the African continent will be digitally enabled by 2030. DE4A, or Digital Economy for Africa is an ongoing initiative that aims to meet the demands of the African economy,...
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...
LEGIC Identsystems, a provider of trusted services and secure, contactless semiconductors has collaborated with inepro, a supplier and developer of innovative RFID solutions, to create their latest high-security RFID reader series: Spider. The Spider RFID reader can be easily integrated into any device to provide instant...
The legendary Wave Pool in the “Valley of Waves” is the undisputed main attraction in Sun City’s famous water park. Here, visitors find their place in the sun, But where there is a lot of light, there is also plenty of shadow which come in...
How many times have you had to enter a password today? May 4th marks World Password Day - but is it time to rethink this security feature? Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust considers passwords' role in modern society. Today, the most common storage medium...
By 2027 the global IoT security and privacy market is set to reach almost $64 billion, according to a report published by ResearchAndMarkets. In addition, cloud-based security and privacy solutions for this sector are estimated to be worth $41.2 billion. The report authors say that these networks...
