Rentia Booysen, Director, Westcon, discusses how AI can be used for mission-critical networking and how organisations should identify the AI-infused tools they need to begin to use it more effectively in the network. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer the elephant in the room, and with the much-spoken-about release of ChatGPT followed by Microsoft’s announcement […]

Fresh produce giant, Dole Food Company, announced in February of this year that it experienced a cybersecurity incident which was identified as ransomware. Upon learning of this incident, Dole moved quickly to contain the threat and engaged leading third-party cybersecurity experts, who worked in partnership with Dole’s internal teams to remediate the issue and secure […]

FS-ISAC, a member-driven, not-for-profit organisation that advances cybersecurity and resilience in the global financial system, has announced the findings of its annual Global Intelligence Office report, Navigating Cyber 2023.  The latest report showcased the effect that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had on the global cyberthreat landscape, sparking a flood of ideologically driven ‘hacktivism’. Driven from both […]

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering Cybersecurity-as-a-Service (CSaaS), has released new research on how the cybersecurity industry can leverage GPT-3, the language model behind the ChatGPT framework, as a co-pilot to help defeat attackers.  The latest report, GPT for You and Me: Applying AI Language Processing to Cyber Defenses, details projects developed by Sophos […]

Only 1.2% of .org domains globally have implemented measures to prevent email phishing, spoofing and ransomware attacks. This figure rises to only 20% among the top 100 US non-profits .org domains by traffic. New research from email security provider, EasyDMARC, reviewed a dataset of 9,935,024 verified .org email domains. EasyDMARC found that only 376,497 (3.8%) […]

Evanssion, a leading cybersecurity and cloud-native value distributor, has announced its partnership with ExtraHop, a leader in cloud-native network detection and response, across the Middle East region. Through this partnership, Evanssion’s customers and partners will be able to leverage cutting-edge network detection and response (NDR) solutions from ExtraHop.  In response to an increase in cyberattacks […]

KnowBe4, a provider of security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, has announced the release of its phishing security resource kit to help end-users defend themselves and their organisations against the threat of phishing attacks.  Phishing is a social engineering scheme in which bad actors attempt to acquire sensitive information from users such as login […]

Software AG, and Intelligent Business Technologies, IBTech, an IT focused subsidiary of Albara’ah Telecom, have entered into a partnership to nurture the formation of advanced safe and smart cities in the region. This partnership will foster the creation of unified emergency services across the Middle East region in addition to a successfully designed, developed deployed […]

First Central Group (FCG) is a fast-growing retail motor insurance company with around 1.3 million customers in the UK through brands including 1st Central and Skyfire, with roughly 1,200 employees across four sites within the UK, Guernsey and Gibraltar. The company is committed to restoring and maintaining trust through technology and data to reduce risk, […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Axis Security, a cloud security provider. This acquisition will allow HPE to expand its Edge-to-cloud security capabilities by offering a unified Secure Access Services Edge (SASE) solution to meet the increasing demand for integrated networking and security solutions delivered as-a-Service. Axis […]