by Dianne Bayley | Mar 3, 2021 | Security and Legal
The Cost of Insider Threats Report by IBM indicates that the overall damage by negligent or malicious employees totals $11.45 million. Whereas intentional insider criminals cause only 14% of the accidents, their damage adds up to $4.08 million—almost a third of the...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 2, 2020 | Security and Legal
Security remains a consistent and ever-present challenge to the organisation today. The statistics that follow in its wake are certainly enough to keep any decision-maker awake at night. In 2020, Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report found that 94% of malware...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 12, 2020 | Internet of Things
An unforeseeable shift in network structures and attack strategies was dropped on the cybersecurity industry in 2020, writes Aamir Lakhani, senior security strategy, Fortinet. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll on organisations and individuals around...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 8, 2020 | Workplace 2020
This year has introduced a bunch of new words for the organisation – ‘new normal’, remote working, global pandemic. They aren’t particularly well-loved words right now, either,says Henk Olivier, MD of Ozone Information Technology Distribution. Everyone is tired of...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 11, 2020 | Security and Legal
IBM’s 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report, compiled by the Ponemon Institute, confirms that the key contributing factor to the cost of a data breach is time – time to detect and time to respond, writes Lukas van der Merwe, Specialist Sales Executive: Security, T-Systems...
