Security

What SDDC means for your business

Software-defined EVERYTHING! Well, not everything, but lots of things. Shifting a lot of the management, and therefore the intelligence, to the software makes a…

7 common misconceptions about database encryption

With technological advancements, we are easily able to store documents and records of medical information, tax, financial transactions and other important information electronically. Prior…

7 things you should know about staying a step ahead of information security threats

In the recent PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global State of Information Security Survey 2016, 41.44% of companies in South Africa and the Middle East reported that they…

Digital healthcare records come with enhanced responsibility for protecting patient data

The City of Joburg announced in September 2015 that it would be spending some R300m over 18 – 24 months to digitise all patient…

10 steps for protecting yourself from ransomware

If you’ve been listening to the news at all the past couple of weeks, you have undoubtedly heard of a number of companies being…

SSL: The unchecked security blind spot

When changing lanes on the highway, you would first indicate to make other drivers aware of your intentions and then check your blind spot…

Smart cities: 5 security areas CIOs should watch

Car navigation systems that can predict where and when traffic jams might occur, by siphoning data from sensors in roads and other vehicles. Cameras…

Meet Bash: the new bug that’s apparently worse than Heartbleed

Just when we thought it was all over, there’s a new bug in virtual town, and it’s called Bash bug. A few months ago…

The swarm of cyber threats you have to protect against is complex and only getting more so

Like facing a swarm of mosquitos, South African business leaders are sounding the alarm about increasingly complex cybersecurity threats. Mosquitos come in their thousands…

5 massive misdeeds from the world’s cyber-crime hotspots

Cybercrime is costing the world an estimated US$400-billion, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ recently released report, ‘Net Losses: Estimating the…

Listen up folks, we really need to start taking encryption seriously

Just like backup is something every business owner knows has to be done right but often isn’t, data encryption is emerging as another essential…

4 top BYOD security risk prevention tips

The BYOD trend is here to stay, with employers increasingly embracing its benefits, such as lower hardware costs, extended customer access to employees and…

Is your site’s security sub-optimal? Here’s how to find out (and fix it)

Much as we would like to think otherwise, our online identities are just one little hack away from falling into unscrupulous hands. Websites that…

Guys seriously, it’s 2014 and people are still think ‘Password1’ is secure?

The web’s been around for a good couple of decades now. That’s plenty of time to learn the damage people can do when they…

SA’s information security skills shortage could come back to bite it in a big way

The Information Security field is extremely fast moving, however the scarcity of skills in South Africa remain at a critical state, and businesses are…

POPI should prompt a serious mobile security rethink for SA companies

Over the past three decades legislatures across the world have been trying to update their legal systems to address growing concerns around how our…

17 tools to help minimise your digital footprint

Online privacy is a topic getting a lot of attention these days and has become a large concern among consumers. While the obvious solution…

In our connected world, everything can be hacked

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of actual objects that are accessed through the Internet. These objects contain embedded technology that allows…

Want to red card fraudsters? Here’s how to do it during the World Cup and beyond

The 2014 FIFA World Cup has been described as the ‘digital World Cup’. According to Google, the massive rise in mobility and Internet access…

The physical location of your data still matters now, but it’s about to become a lot less important

Think back to 2010 and 2011. What were the big trends? We were just about getting started with big data and there was still…

Privacy is worth protecting, even if you have nothing to hide

Two categories of applications have been getting a great deal of attention lately: those that allow users to make purportedly anonymous comments and share…

10 ways to be awesome and fight off a DDoS attack in real time

The threat posed by DDoS attacks is ever-growing and is something that continues to be a topic which interests and concerns businesses in equal…

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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