As organisations increasingly move critical applications, regulated customer data and development work into public cloud environments, 32% of UK organisations say the number one benefit for moving workloads to the cloud is to offload security risk. That is according to the findings of a survey carried out by CyberArk. This is despite many public cloud […]

Amazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company, has announced the general availability of AWS Security Hub, a service that gives customers a central place to manage security and compliance across an AWS environment. AWS Security Hub aggregates, organises and prioritises security alerts – called findings – from AWS services such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector and Amazon […]

McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, has released a special edition of its Cloud and Risk Adoption Report, focused on the business impact of cloud services and how organisations around the world are addressing security gaps to accelerate their businesses with the cloud. Cloud services are the most significant advance in IT since the introduction of […]

Over half of UAE company data remains unclassified, despite a rise in security breaches Just 2% of companies in the UAE have classified all their data in the public cloud An overwhelming majority (83%) of UAE companies have classified less than half of their public cloud data – the highest of all countries surveyed Businesses […]

Ricardo Brizido, Chief Technology Officer at Seedrs, a hyper-growth UK-based private equity marketplace for investing in startups and later-stage business throughout Europe, discusses how the company has partnered with Alert Logic to secure its business-critical cloud-based applications hosted in AWS. “It was really clear Alert Logic could help us enhance our security by threat monitoring, […]

Trend Micro Southern Africa has announced the local launch of its Trend Micro Cloud App Security point of presence designed to provide customers added security and protection of their Microsoft Office 365 environments. With Trend Micro Cloud App Security, local customers can now fully embrace Office 365 with the knowledge that their investment, email and […]

Trent Odgers, Cloud and Hosting Manager for Southern Africa at Veeam, looks at the role of data protection in  a multi-cloud strategy.  For all its benefits, adopting a multi-cloud approach in the digital business landscape does not come without risks. Given the importance of safeguarding data amidst evolving regulatory requirements, companies can ill afford not […]

C-level executives who have access to a company’s most sensitive information are now the major focus for social engineering attacks, alerts the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report. Senior executives are 12 times more likely to be the target of social incidents and nine times more likely to be the target of social breaches than […]

Corne du Preez, Technology Solutions Professional: Apps and Infra, Altron Karabina, looks at how organisations can implement an effective BCDR strategy. When speaking to customers, I always ask what their BCDR strategies are. Sometimes I get good information from customers around their understanding of BCDR, but in most cases it seems that customers have given […]

Proofpoint, a leading next-generation cybersecurity and compliance company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Meta Networks, an innovator in zero trust network access (ZTNA). With this acquisition, Proofpoint will strengthen its cloud-based architecture and people-centric security platform, enabling customers to better protect their people and the applications and data they access beyond the […]