The newly formed Cybersecurity Digital Alliance (CDSA) in South Africa is aiming to strengthen cyber defences in the country's corporate sector. The new cybersecurity forum brings together the various stakeholders in the local industry in their bid to tackle issues including defence, rapid response and managing...
Technology giants Google have taken the first step in their long-term security plans as they complete the purchase of Israeli company Siemplify. Siemplify has built a reputation for its specialism within security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR). Google has not disclosed the purchase price for the...
Callsign, the digital identity pioneer warms that the rise of scams is harming organisations’ reputations across the world. A global study of consumers revealed that just receiving a scam message purporting to be from any brand is enough for 49.8% of them to lose trust...
The Cloud Security Summit Africa, supported by Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria(CSEAN) brings together 250+ IT and Business heads from cross-industry verticals across Africa with an aim to foster discussions around the deep seated challenges, progress needed and tech reforms advised for the African...
barox Kommunikation AG, the global manufacturer of professional switches, media converters and IP extenders specifically designed for video applications, is promoting cyber secure, high-performance Ethernet video and PoE transmission, with its new RY-L28-XX Series layer-2/3 managed ethernet switch range. Designed to meet the specific operational and...
Acronis announced that it has added 4Sight Dynamics Africa, a subsidiary of 4Sight, as a cloud distributor for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa, continuing to intensify its investments and development on the African continent. 4Sight Dynamics Africa will represent Acronis as a cloud distributor across...
Growing adoption of work from home and a lack of IT skills are set to motivate more South African companies to consider cybersecurity as a service. South Africa’s lockdown over the last year has accelerated many trends, from e-learning and e-commerce, through to video conferencing and...
Facilities Management (FM) and IT professionals are working more closely than ever before to defend the built environment from cyberattack. In the worlds of OT (operational technology) and IT (information technology), the new buzzword is ‘electrification’ and that’s because power supply is critical to digitalisation....
Mideast Communication Systems is to offer LogRhythm’s NextGen SIEM cyber security platform to its new and existing customers across 10 eastern and central African countries. The partnership enables public and private organisations to deploy LogRhythm’s NextGen SIEM and benefit from automation, advanced intelligence engine, machine learning...
In the build up to the world’s leading cloud computing conference, we caught up with Christian Jäger – CEO of CloudFest – to learn more about the modern-day cloud security threats and cloud computing trends in Africa, and to talk all things CloudFest 2021. Taking...
