by Dianne Bayley | Aug 21, 2019 | Security and Legal
South Africa’s IT professionals’ body, the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA), has called for greater IT industry involvement and innovation in driving inclusive Fourth Industrial Revolution progress in Africa. At the IITPSA annual...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 21, 2019 | Security and Legal
The cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past five years, and now costs $3,92-million on average. These rising expenses are representative of the multiyear financial impact of breaches, increased regulation and the complex process of resolving criminal...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 13, 2019 | Security and Legal
With the average number of breached data records topping 25 575 per country, it is not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ a business will get compromised. Irrespective of the company size or industry sector, stealing sensitive data has become big business. This is where the...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 7, 2019 | Security and Legal
Heavy industry, utilities, municipalities, government departments, transport and healthcare are increasingly under attack by cyber criminals, activists and even nation states, writes Doros Hadjizenonos, regional sales director at Fortinet, and these sectors are likely...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 5, 2019 | Security and Legal
Organisations running Operational Technology (OT), which according to Gartner can be described as “hardware and software that detects or causes a change through the direct monitoring and/or control of physical devices, processes and events in the enterprise”, have...
