Apr 26, 2024 | Cybersecurity and business, South Africa
How to spot a cyberattack Popular culture’s depiction of a cyberattack is often very misleading – the cybercriminal figure is someone sitting in a dark room, typing a few commands into a laptop, then sitting back and sipping a drink while their code causes...
Apr 19, 2024 | Cyber Insurance, Cybersecurity and business
The last few years have been hard on cybersecurity professionals. An onslaught of new attack innovations and evolutions has raised an attack’s risk and the costs. More organisations than ever are attempting to transfer a portion of that risk through cyber insurance....
Mar 8, 2024 | 2024, cyber, Cybersecurity and business, South Africa
Durban — Sensitive data of at least three-million entities and individuals who were registered with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) could have fallen into the wrong hands when the organisation’s database was hacked this week. Addresses,...
Mar 1, 2024 | Cybersecurity and business
In today’s constantly evolving cybersecurity landscape, companies must adopt a proactive approach to data protection to effectively defend against repeated cyberattack attempts, as it is no longer a matter of “if” or “when”, but rather “how often” they will get hit....
Dec 8, 2023 | Cyber Insurance, Cybersecurity and business
With the rampant rise in ransomware incidents, the likelihood of an organisation being successfully breached is now extremely high. As a result, many businesses have explored the option of cyber insurance in an effort to mitigate the risk. However, can cyber insurance...
Dec 1, 2023 | Cybersecurity and business
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent about 90% of businesses and provide more than 50% of employment worldwide, according to the World Bank. The European Commission says SMEs represent 99% of all businesses in the European Union, employ around 100...