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Steps needed to close Africa’s high-end IT security skills gaps

Paul Williams, Country Manager – Southern Africa at Fortinet, says businesses cannot afford to wait five or more years for security engineers to hone high-end skills – new skills development models must be...

Unified defence is the best approach, expert argues

Mohammad Jamal Tabbara, Senior Systems Engineer – UAE and Channel at Infoblox, says organisations should not be fooled into thinking there is a ‘silver bullet’ for preventing cyberattacks but instead...

Fortinet expert on securing and regulating IoT

Simon Bryden, Consulting System Engineer at Fortinet, discusses how best to secure and regulate IoT. In the data centre, servers, storage and, more recently, networks are highly automated and the processes are...

Critical infrastructure: Downtime is simply not an option

The draft Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill in South Africa, the successor to the National Key Points Act of 1980, has elicited heated debate from several quarters. However, Gregg Petersen, Regional Vice...

Mimecast expert on tackling cyberattacks in Kenya

Brian Pinnock, Mimecast Africa and the Middle East, discusses how the country’s new cybercrime bill is a crucial move in Kenya’s cybercrime war, but argues that all organisations will need to play their...

It’s time to get NIS directive compliant, expert says

Simon Edwards, Cybersecurity Solution Architect at Trend Micro, discusses the EU compliance law which he says is just as important to long-term security, stability and growth as the headline dominating GDPR. ...

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