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Cybersecurity requires new thinking, says Trend Micro expert

According to Indi Siriniwasa, VP at Trend Micro Sub Saharan Africa, the recent state of Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attacks on several South African financial institutions has once again highlighted the...

D-Day for banks and the City of Johannesburg to pay ransom demands

Today is D-Day for for banks and the City of Johannesburg to pay ransom demands that were sent through by hackers last week. It is alleged that two separate groups of hackers are threatening to close down the finance...

Industry calls for standardisation of CISO role to protect businesses

Professionals from the cybersecurity industry have called for clarity regarding the role of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to ensure that organisations are able to protect themselves from cyberattacks and...

CIISec warns organisations are at risk due to lack of diversity

The IT security industry is still failing to attract workers beyond a highly limited demographic, the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) has warned. Unless it can embrace greater diversity – in gender, a...

Digital Guardian expert on the configuration mistakes that provide field days...

Tim Bandos, Vice President of Cybersecurity at Digital Guardian, details the top five configuration gaffes that organisations must avoid to reduce the threat exposure. Sometimes it’s the little things. In...

Xperien CEO advises firms to beware of company data on private devices

Few businesses realise that the data residing on personal devices could result in a data breach. They also don’t understand that it’s possible to recover the data from damaged hard drives, broken phones, credit c...

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