Industrial cyber crime reaches 'pandemic proportions'

The event will be held in Cape Town on 23 May and in Johannesburg on 28 and 29 May.

SonicWall Capture ATP with its RTDMI technology catches new cyber attacks that elude traditional security sandbox technology.

These include developing an intelligence-driven strategy to prevent advanced attacks, and implementing gateway security and multi-factor authentication.

Delegates attending the ITWeb Security Summit, in Johannesburg, from 28-29 May, can find out how CyberTech secures company data.

The SOC, based in Port Elizabeth, will proactively detect modern-day cyber threats with incident response and remediation services.

BLTS believes network traffic analytics is the ultimate way to detect and investigate security threats across the network.

Three half-day workshops for Cape Town delegates, covering a variety of important cyber security issues, will take place on 24 May.

F-Secure survey data suggests many companies may not have the visibility they need to catch attacks that make it past firewalls and endpoint protection.

Regular software and firmware updates to your firewall help to eliminate known vulnerabilities in your system, says Mouli Srinivasan, marketing analyst at ManageEngine.

In addition to misappropriated money, today there is HR fraud, IP and data theft, and business misconduct, says Graham Reid, skills, development and training manager at Sebata Municipal Solutions.

User education and continued inter-company communications around how best to avoid phishing attacks are vital, says Networks Unlimited Africa.