The secret to effective public cloud security is improving your overall security posture, says Andre Kannemeyer, CTO at Duxbury Networking.

Once businesses put data and workloads in the public cloud, they become personally responsible for securing them, says Andre Kannemeyer, CTO at Duxbury Networking.

Cloud Optix automatically discovers cloud assets, detects cloud security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and provides threat response for AWS customers, says Dan Schiappa, chief product officer, Sophos.

Gartner's placement of Sophos as a Leader for the 11th consecutive time underscores how critical its real-world endpoint detection and response technology is, says Dan Schiappa, chief product officer at Sophos.

One in five IT managers surveyed didn’t know how they were breached, and the diversity of attack methods means there's no single workable defensive strategy, says Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist, Sophos.

Sophos Intercept X with deep learning stops never-before-seen malware, unknown exploit variants, stealth attacks and ransomware attacks.

Users that do not apply the fix are the low-hanging fruit that crooks are going to go after next, says Sophos.

Although patches for EternalBlue were issued over a year ago, it remains a firm favourite with attackers, says Sophos.

Businesses in the Middle East and Africa are key targets for cyber attackers, says Microsoft.

The Sophos survey revealed IT managers cannot identify 45% of their organisation's network traffic. [Local rep: Netxactics]

The new version includes innovations in anti-ransomware and exploit prevention, and active-hacker mitigations like credential theft protection. [Local rep: Netxactics]

The median total cost of a ransomware attack in SA is around R1.7 million.