Internet Security

J2 Software partners with IMechE to enhance email security with Mimecast Services

Cisco’s Consumer Security Survey gathered insight into how secure South Africans feel online. And, it turns out, they have good reason to be worried.

The latter half of 2022 was characterised by significant instabilities in the tech industry. E-retailer and cloud giant Amazon announced that it would cut tens of thousands of jobs, social media behemoths Twitter and Meta laid off significant percentages of their workforce, and even Microsoft saw its slowest revenue growth in five years.

Alviva Holdings, one of Africa's largest ICT products and services providers has invested in a robust, cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) and backup solution. Partnering with VMware Cloud Verified Partner Routed, the distribution giant is reaping the rewards of a consumption-based DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution hosted on VMware Cloud at two of Routed’s data centres. The engagement has been so successful that Alviva Holdings is now investigating using the cloud platform to run its enterprise application workloads too.

Announced in technology preview at VMware Explore US, VMware’s Project Northstar aims to accelerate the enterprise application and cloud journey by simplifying how networking...

Market studies show that the recent COVID-19 pandemic served as a significant catalyst for ecommerce adoption among retail customers across the globe, with a vast majority of shoppers moving their spending online. In fact, the IDC Worldwide COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey found that online shopping increased by a massive 90% during the height of the pandemic.

Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa, a leading global distributor, is delighted to announce the general local availability of vendor partner Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex XSIAM. The...

At the start of the pandemic, anything that could facilitate remote work for scattered business teams, flourished overnight. Microsoft saw two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months. Video calling company Zoom’s sales went up 370%. And communication platform Discord’s value more than doubled.

Carla Petersen, Channel Manager F5 at Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa According to the F5 Labs Application Protection Report 2022, ransomware has continued to grow in frequency...

The hybrid workplace continues to enjoy consistent adoption, particularly amongst those industries that do not require their workforce to be at the office every day. The benefits are well-published and tangible, however, it has also brought with it smorgasbord of security challenges.

Is the public cloud safe? Organisations often have this concern as they engage services from third-party cloud hosts. They may have a point - the public cloud is not necessarily as secure as we want to think. The rise in cyberattacks partially correlates with the spreading adoption of public digital services.

A 2022 global state of security survey from Infoblox, the leader in cloud-first networking and security services, highlights the security concerns, fears, and costs from 1,100 IT respondents in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Australia, and Singapore.

Achieving Zero Trust for an organisation requires several different solutions all working together dynamically, and modern NAC approaches have a key role to play. Todd...

Galix Networking, specialised Information Security services provider and the first SonicWall Platinum partner in Africa, has been named the 2022 SonicWall Partner of the Year for Enterprise in the Sub-Saharan Africa territory. This is the second year running that Galix has been awarded this accolade, highlighting their commitment to partnership and growth.

Traditional security concerns around the cloud – including data loss and denial of service – are being over-shadowed by fears of inadequate security controls...

Colocation users are growing. ISPs and cloud providers are getting on board, due to the huge growth in fibre connectivity and the shift to work-from-home after the pandemic lockdown. “But is it right for everyone?” asks Andrew Cruise, MD of VMware Cloud provider Routed.

Processing intelligent data for real-time decision-making is the next frontier for infrastructure evolution, says Andy Rowland, Head of Digital Manufacturing, BT. Adopting edge computing is...

Report Details Evolution of Russian Cybercrime, Email Security and Threats to Critical Infrastructure

Compared to Q3 2021, the total number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in Q4 shows an increase of 52%. This is 4.5 times more than the same time the previous year. These and other findings were published in the new Kaspersky DDoS attacks in Q4 2021 report.

Kaspersky Safe Kids for Windows has received an ‘Approved’ certificate from AV-Comparatives, the independent testing organisation, for its ability to protect kids from pornographic content. According to test results, Kaspersky Safe Kids blocked 98.6% of adult websites. For the second year in a row, this was the only parental control solution out of those submitted that could reach the certification requirements.