by Dianne Bayley | Jun 17, 2021 | Security and Legal
More than half of all organisations have been the victim of a ransomware attack – and 80% of businesses that chose to pay a ransom demand suffered a second ransomware attack, often at the hands of the same threat actor group. This is according to Cybereason’s global...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 15, 2021 | Security and Legal
Distributed denial of services (DDoS) traffic has more than doubled in volume between January 2020 and May 2021, according to the Nokia Deepfield’s DDoS traffic analysis, which examined service provider network traffic encompassing thousands of routers on the...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 14, 2021 | Security and Legal
The Constitutional Court recently handed down judgment on the Clicks Retailers (Pty) Ltd v CSARS case, which has wide ramifications for all loyalty programme providers, writes Joon Chong, a Partner at Webber Wentzel. Loyalty programme future expenditure will as a...
by Dianne Bayley | May 19, 2021 | Security and Legal
The countdown is on, the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA) comes into full effect on 1 July 2021, writes Xperien CEO Wale Arewa. With the deadline looming, there is a lot of confusion and ambiguity regarding its definitions, requirements and enforcement...
by Dianne Bayley | May 18, 2021 | Security and Legal
After living with Covid-19 in our midst for over a year, it is probably safe to say that, at the outset, a number of us naïvely believed that the hard lockdown would do the trick, and normalcy would return fairly swiftly, according to Ashleigh Blair, Bernadette...
by Dianne Bayley | May 12, 2021 | Security and Legal
With many businesses forced into remote working by the Covid-19 pandemic – and likely to continue working a physical-virtual hybrid model for the foreseeable future – paperless processes and stricter privacy requirements are top priorities for the C-suite. According...
