McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, has announced updates to McAfee MVISION Cloud for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will help customers ‘shift left’ with security to preemptively improve compliance and reduce risk within their cloud infrastructure. With McAfee MVISION Cloud, security is pushed earlier into the DevOps process so that security professionals can catch risky […]

BeyondTrust, a worldwide leader in privileged access management, has announced the latest release of BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows and Mac, formerly Avecto Defendpoint. Now integrated with BeyondTrust’s BeyondInsight platform, organisations can achieve critical security and compliance requirements of enterprise-wide least privilege more quickly and easily than ever before. BeyondInsight is a unified platform combining […]

Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity company, and INTERPOL, the international criminal police organisation, have signed a new five-year agreement to reinforce their collaboration in the fight against cybercrime around the world. This is the second agreement between the two parties following the first signed in 2014. Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky, and Tim Morris, Executive Director […]

Paul Dignan, Systems Engineering Manager, F5 Networks, discusses the benefits of utilising Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the advancements it offers the cybersecurity industry if deployed correctly. He says that AI can be both a destructive tool, or vital for business development. It’s no news that advances in AI and Machine Learning have enormous transformative potential […]

SANS Institute, a global leader in cybersecurity training, has announced SANS Riyadh 2019, a training event for cybersecurity professionals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The event, which will be held at Burj Rafal Hotel Kempinski, Riyadh from July 28 to August 1, 2019, will focus on developing skills in critical security and strategic security […]

Palo Alto Networks finds over half of respondents take responsibility for their data online. An online study of more than 10,000 respondents in EMEA conducted by Palo Alto Networks and YouGov alongside Dr Jessica Barker, an expert in the human nature of cybersecurity, explores attitudes towards new cybersecurity technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), and […]

The evolving cyberthreat landscape is forcing C-level executives to improve or adapt their defence strategies. Chester Wisniewski, Principal Research Scientist in the Office of the CTO, Sophos, tells us why a proactive approach can contribute to building a positive security culture and defend against attacks. How can smart technologies like AI and ML contribute to […]

Are you concerned about what your children are able to access on their smartphones? Cybersecurity expert, Matt Boddy, explains how you can restrict what they can and can’t access.

Jeff Carpenter, Product Marketing Manager of Cloud Authentication in IAM solutions at HID Global, explains the key differences between multi-factor authentication and single sign-on.  The simple combination of a user ID and password is no longer good enough to protect our most vulnerable information. Identity theft, data breaches, malware and malicious actors mean that digital […]

At any given moment, a cybercrime victim is losing around R3.5 million a day, according to Action Fraud in the United Kingdom. The Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2019 found that 60% of medium firms and 61% of large firms deny that they have been attacked and yet 25% of those that identify a breach experience […]