Vaultize, the enterprise file security vendor with its East Africa partner Compulynx, exhibited its enterprise digital rights management and file sync and share, at a launch event in Nairobi. Director of Sales for International Business at Vaultize, Sameer Vitkar presented the enterprise file security platform to the CIO community. “Vaultize enhances our existing product portfolio […]

Worldwide spending on Internet of Things (IoT) security will reach $348 million in 2016, a 23.7% increase from 2015 spending of $281.5 million, according to Gartner. Spending on IoT security is expected to reach $547 million in 2018 (see Table 1). Although overall spending will initially be moderate, Gartner predicts that IoT security market spending will increase […]

FireEye has recently uncovered the activities of a highly lethal group of cyber criminals, dubbed FIN6. In 2015, FireEye Threat Intelligence supported several Mandiant Consulting investigations in the hospitality and retail sectors where FIN6 actors had aggressively targeted and compromised point-of-sale (POS) systems, making off with millions of payment card numbers. These card numbers were […]

WinMagic marked its appearance at Cloud Security Expo with the release of a new study analysing the disconnect between end-user employees and IT managers. Two simultaneous studies polled 1,000 employees and 250 IT managers respectively from businesses across UK to discover the importance of IT and data security in the workplace. Rifts in perception versus […]

A majority of respondents worldwide (54%) indicated they might be willing to share their personal data collected from their smart home with companies in exchange for money, and 70% agree that companies should give coupons and discounts to customers in return for data about device usage, according to a survey of global consumers sponsored by […]

Infoblox has announced the Infoblox DNS Threat Index, which measures the creation of malicious Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, unexpectedly rebounded to near record levels in the fourth quarter of 2015. Infoblox researchers also found that 92% of newly observed malicious domains in Q4 were hosted in either the US or Germany. After dipping in Q3 […]

The 5th annual BCI Horizon Scan report is a research study produced in association with BSI, assessing business preparedness and measuring the feelings of business continuity and resilience professionals from 568 organisations globally. It provides an insight into the top 10 threats facing businesses today. “2015 saw a number of high profile businesses across the […]

Intel Security, recently held their Annual Channel Kick-Off for the Middle East at Fairmont, The Palm, Dubai. At the March 2nd event, which brought together seventy-five partners from 15 countries including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait, Intel Security laid out the 2016 channel priorities, and recognised key partners for their contributions in 2015. Mindware was […]

GCC countries are among the global leaders in cyber security preparedness, with the region’s network security spend tripling to $1 billion by 2018, industry experts announced today at Infosecurity Middle East, part of ISNR. With the region’s rapid economic development and connectivity in the Internet of Things era – especially in critical national infrastructure, oil […]

FireEye, Inc. has announced the release of its annual Mandiant M-Trends report. Compiled from advanced threat investigations conducted by Mandiant’s leading consultants in 2015, “M-Trends 2016” details the leading cyber trends and tactics threat actors used to compromise businesses and steal data. “In 2015, we continued to be reminded that there is no such thing […]