The 3am alert nobody answers: Why SA SOCs are buckling under modern threats

Public sector breach notifications are up 40%, ransomware detections sit higher in SA than anywhere else in Africa, and POPIA enforcement is no longer theoretical. The next decade of security operations will be defined by what local enterprises do about it.

Khipu Networks

4:10

Business resilience

10 Jul

Rapid recovery, not just backup: A new approach to business resilience

AvePoint's Rapid Recovery System helps organisations restore their minimum viable business first in the event of an incident or disruption.

iGaming fraud surges in SA despite greylist exit

South Africa’s fraud detection tools struggle to keep pace as iGaming scams tripled in 2025 amid a shift to AI-based scams.

Nicola Mawson

4:10

Security Operations Centre

9 Jul

Addressing the 57% blind spot: Aspects of security operations centre effectiveness to consider

The findings from the Kaspersky Security Services Global Report reveals most SOCs are collecting far more data than they are using for detection.

ITWeb Security Summit

3:00

Obscure Technologies

9 Jul

Obscure Technologies partners with SharkStriker to launch Vantage – next-gen SOC service

The Vantage SOC service is a flexible, vendor-agnostic package tailored to support organisations at different stages of cyber security maturity.

Obscure Technologies

3:20

Check Point Software Technologies

8 Jul

Critical exposures surge, but most don't need immediate action

Check Point Software Technologies' 'Under Pressure: The 2026 Exposure Gap Report' reveals a widening global exposure gap and a shorter window for defenders to act.

Chris Tredger

4:50

Check Point Software Technologies

8 Jul

No time to lose: Why a military strategy could unlock Africa's AI cyber defence

Prevention, unified visibility and speed are now the defining capabilities of cyber resilience, says Fred Streefland, global field CISO at Check Point Software Technologies.

Check Point Software Technologies

3:20

Kaspersky ICS CERT

8 Jul

Kaspersky ICS CERT: The beginning of 2026 showed an increase in cyber attacks on the manufacturing sector

Kaspersky, in its new ICS CERT report, announced that in Q1 2026, the percentage of industrial control systems on which malicious objects were blocked reached 19.6% globally.

ITWeb Security Summit

4:00

South Africa Information and Communication Technology Association

7 Jul

The future is already stealing secrets

Quantum computing shifts cyber security into a new era in which encrypted data could be stolen today only to be decrypted years later.

Kaspersky challenges IT leaders with next-generation cyber protection simulations

The Kaspersky Interactive Protection Simulation has expanded to include advanced cyber attack scenarios tailored specifically to IT organisations.

ITWeb Security Summit

2:40

Healthcare

7 Jul

InfoVerge SOCaaS boosts security for SA healthcare regulatory body

The solution provides the healthcare customer with continuous monitoring, threat detection and incident response through a cloud-based model.

Finding focus: Strategic approach to cyber security for SMEs

SMEs must reduce complexity, consolidate visibility and build on what their existing team can realistically manage, says Kaspersky.

Why every cyber security team needs a hacker mindset

A hacker mindset involves a disciplined, methodical way of thinking about systems under stress, says Armand Kruger, head of cyber security at NEC XON.

NEC XON

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