Preliminary investigations suggest an entity with administrative rights successfully breached the fund’s security protocols and accessed sensitive data.
Doctor Mafuwafuwane's Journey from Cloud to Cybersecurity Leadership | Exploring careers in tech #8
In this episode of Exploring Careers in Tech, we speak to Doctor Mafuwafuwafuwane, a Practice Lead for Security Services at Nexio. He describes his career journey, starting from studying computer engineering and then working in the cloud space for big companies such as IBM. Eventually, he transitioned into the security space, gaining experience in building solutions on top of mobile phones that separated work and personal data as a Client Technical Advisor. He then moved to First Distribution as part of the pre-sales team, where he familiarised himself with firewalling, data management, and antivirus solutions among many other security fields. After that, he joined Altron, where he received various promotions as a Solutions Architect. Following three and a half years there, he moved to Logicalis, where he served as a Practice Manager for Security Services in a client-facing role. #CareersInTech #CyberSecurity #Jobs
The agency embarks on a project to provide over 60 IT security operations centres in government departments.
Commercial ICT recently completed a project in the public schooling sector that entailed the comprehensive overhaul of a Gauteng school’s IT security.
A must-attend gathering in ICT
Covid-19 has been central to a significant shift in the importance of cybersecurity. Cisco's Garsen Naidu stressed the importance of examining the evolving threatscape by listing a few of the highlights on this year's ITWeb Security Summit agenda.
These have to do with password policy, NTLM authentication, cleaning up platforms and privileged access, according to a survey by ManageEngine.
Communication and collaboration between different departments facilitates a common solution that reduces the overall business risk through converging physical and IT security resources, says Charl Ueckermann, CEO ofAVeS Cyber Security.
Gartner forecasts a slight uptick in IT spending for the region next year, but warns Brexit uncertainty will contribute to growth slowdown.
By making savvy choices that address their priority risks first, companies can get better value and more appropriate protection, says AVeS Cyber Security.
Cyber threats targeting the government sector have become a growing concern, according to IBM X-Force Security Incident Data.
Businesses are getting caught up in hype, and are investing in technologies that are punted as being the next `silver bullet', says Telspace Systems.
Employing the right change management and access policy management tools is essential, says SolarWinds.
ART automatically generates security intelligence allowing businesses to take control of all endpoints and combat poor internal practices.
Most South African organisations believe C-level executives should be held accountable for data breaches, a survey finds.