Counting the cost of a security breach

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...

A new approach is needed to cyber security concerns

Businesses continue to have a sense of unease in terms of their security posture as they move their data to the cloud, adopt a hybrid and or a multi-cloud strategy and utilise more cloud applications. By Barry Kemp, head of managed IT at Vox The top three cybercrimes...

Cyber risk is not just an IT problem

Recent high-profile attacks underscore the cyber risk facing all enterprises, writes Doros Hadjizenonos, regional sales director at Fortinet. Cyber attacks are proliferating globally; but in an increasingly digitised world, traditionally ‘digitally-enabled’ companies...

Smarter cameras and the applications of today

Network video installations have come a long way. Firmly established within the safety and security arena, they are now increasingly used in various applications. By Vanessa Tyne, senior KAM at Axis Communications South Africa Adapting its technologies to meet...

The new cyber-norm

Today is D-Day for banks and the City of Johannesburg to pay ransom demands sent through by hackers last week. Bryan Hamman, Regional Director at NETSCOUT, which offers NETSCOUT Arbor, specialising in advanced DDos protection solutions, offers this explanation of DDoS...

Special offer for Azure blob storage

Modernising your workspace could be as easy as utilising scalable, cost-effective cloud storage for all your unstructured data. Azure Blob storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimised for storing massive amounts of...

At 50, AMD is still innovating

Kathy Gibson is with AMD in Sandton – AMD and its partners are tackling the potential of the data centre market, with innovations in the 7nm technology helping to drive this. Sukh Dhillon, EMEA commercial channel director at AMD, tells partners that the market...

Leaders invest more in tech

A new research survey on Future Systems from Accenture sheds important light on the enormous impact that technology investment and adoption have on a company’s financial performance and most notably, the mindsets and behaviors of companies that are industry leaders....

KnowBe4 signs up African distributor

KnowBe4 Africa is partnering with Cyber Security Africa as its African distributor. The distribution agreement between KnowBe4 Africa and Cyber Security Africa will allow for relationship building as well as provide local support on the ground for channel partners and...

New SADC dealer account manager for Kyocera

Having worked for Fortune 500 companies, such as Apple, IBM and Oracle, Mpho Seisa brings this experience to his new role at Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa as dealer account manager: SADC. The position sees Seisa expanding the sales of Kyocera Document...