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 | Aug 14, 2017 | Security and Legal
The constant evolution of the global security threat landscape is playing a part in the rise of cyber ‘security as a service’ offerings. In addition, the evergreen discussion around cost modelling, namely the ‘Capex vs Opex?’ issue, is also a factor in the promotion...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 7, 2017 | Features
By Michael Marriott, Digital Shadows security expert High profile data breaches are regularly in the news and, seemingly, businesses and are losing the battle to protect their intellectual property (IP), corporate, and customer data from the threats posed by...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 4, 2017 | Security and Legal
Each year thousands of Internet users become victims of a cybercrime that leaves them out of pocket. Research from Kaspersky Lab reveals that over half (52%) of Internet users globally who’ve lost money at the hands of cybercriminals have only got some, or none, of...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 20, 2016 | Workplace 2020
Data breaches increased 15% in the first six months of 2016 compared to the last six months of 2015. According to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index, worldwide, there were 974 reported data breaches and more than 554-million compromised data records in the first half of...