The average company suffers 15 DDOS attacks per year, says A10 Networks.
The median total cost of a ransomware attack in SA is around R1.7 million.
As social media continues to gain prominence, experts warn users to watch out for blackmail, money laundering, identity theft, and dating scams.
JP Lourens, software and solutions product manager at Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa, will moderate a panel discussion on this topic at the ITWeb Cloud Summit 2018 on 8 February.
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Recorded live at ITWeb Security Summit 2024, Steve Jump, director, Custodiet Advisory Services, provided ITWeb's Adrian Hinchcliffe with an update on the Security Summit Hackathon, the value these have in skills development and talent recruitment for companies and the start-up scene, as well as an overview of Secure by Design principles.
Child protection and cyber crime are some of the key issues being highlighted in SA today as the world celebrates Safer Internet Day.
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A Visa survey reveals more local consumers are interested in using biometric authentication as an alternative to traditional passwords.
Considering the sheer volume of IOT devices, it's not surprising hackers have automated the process to hack them, says Tallen Harmsen, head of Cyber Security at IndigoCube.
There are some significant trends that businesses should pay close attention to in 2018, says Ralph Berndt, Director, Sales at Syrex.
The solution incorporates e-mail, e-mail backups, file sharing, computer backups, antivirus and communication in one package.
Extortion is growing in popularity among cyber criminals, says Anvee Alderton, channel manager of Trend Micro Southern Africa.
Monitoring the security of providers and other third parties can be very useful, says Yaki Faitelson, Co-Founder and CEO of Varonis.
So if you need to encrypt your backups due to sensitive data, but the source database is left unencrypted, this is pure folly, says Craig Moir of Encryptech.