Without crop insurance, farmers who lose a crop owing to drought, excess rain, fire, frost or pests like locusts risk crippling losses.
Ninety-three percent of organisations reported encountering significant issues with their backup and recovery solutions.
The unreliability of the national grid and its inability to sustain power means companies must make difficult decisions when it comes to the cloud, says Ralph Berndt, sales and marketing director at Syrex.
With software like Mailprotector’s CloudFilter e-mail filtering solution, and the right training, workers can learn to recognise dangerous e-mails and react appropriately.
Organisations in critical infrastructure sectors must be positioned to combat accelerating industrial control system attacks, says Dean Parsons, SANS certified ICS instructor, CEO and principal consultant of ICS Defense Force.
Fortinet’s Secure Networking Portfolio and FortiOS 7.4 enable unified management and analytics across its secure networking portfolio.
APIs are crucial to digital services because they enable different applications to share data and 'talk' to each other, says Avash Maharaj, head of infrastructure, cloud and security at Blue Turtle Technologies.
Extra risk requires broad business continuity and disaster recovery plans and processes, says Casper Van Der Walt, chief cloud officer, CipherWave Business Solutions.
Vertiv promotes Wojtek Piorko with immediate effect, from his previous position as South East Africa regional director.
South Africa’s power supply crisis adds to the long-term, ongoing IT system downtime woes at the Department of Home Affairs.
Cloud threat modelling across the attacker’s life cycle will unveil potential vulnerabilities and establish proactive security mitigations.