by Dianne Bayley | Jul 10, 2019 | Security and Legal
Investec Private Banking notes that our perception of “hackers” is a far cry from the sophisticated career criminals we see in real life, and it is this disparity that makes cybercrime so difficult to guard against as people don’t understand their motivations, so...
by Dianne Bayley | May 27, 2019 | Security and Legal
It seems as though each day brings another article about IoT, big data analytics and cloud architectures talking about the unlimited potential for companies trying to gain a competitive edge in an increasingly digital world. Early adopters, who are a bit further along...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 1, 2019 | Sustainability
By Matthew Poulter, SAM business manager at First Technology National Today’s businesses run on software, which make them a soft target for cybercriminals. However, many organisations don’t even have a complete view of what software they have within their...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 14, 2017 | Security and Legal
Kathy Gibson was at the IBM Watson Summit 2017 in Kyalami and reports that cybercrime is out of control; it is a systemic problem and it is getting worse. Cybercrime is estimated that about 4-billion records were breached last year because of cyber-attacks. But why is...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 3, 2017 | Security and Legal
Businesses and governments need to completely change their thinking in terms of cybersecurity and start planning their controls around the paradigm of guaranteed failure against attacks. So says Michiel Jonker, director: IT Advisory at Grant Thornton, who adds: “A...
