by Dianne Bayley | Jan 26, 2021 | Security and Legal
2020 was an unusual year where circumstances shifted at record pace. Amidst the scramble and confusion, security teams rose to the occasion. Perhaps most significantly, organisations had to rapidly protect and scale their remote access while facing new security risks....
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 26, 2021 | Security and Legal
While the lifting of international travel restrictions, put in place in early 2020 to curb the spread of COVID-19, would be great news for the travel industry and the wider economy, the move would likely further exacerbate the already critical shortage of...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 15, 2021 | Security and Legal
While it was already under way prior to the pandemic, the global shift to digital payments has been positively affected by the crisis. According to the research data analysed and published by Finnish website Sijoitusrahastot, the global digital payments market grew by...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 10, 2021 | Security and Legal
2021 will bring aggressive cybercrime activity as criminals pivot their attacks from data encryption to data exfiltration. Data exfiltration is a form of a security breach that occurs when an individual’s or company’s data is copied, transferred, or retrieved from a...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 29, 2020 | Security and Legal
In this Q&A article, Oracle spokesperson: Craig Nel, Cloud platform leader, ECEMEA, Oracle, examines questions on the impact of security and the cloud and how these issues should be addressed. What are the necessary elements of a cloud security strategy? Cloud...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 22, 2020 | Security and Legal
The South African pension industry is worth an estimated R1.8 trillion, writes Laurie Wiid, Senior Private Wealth Manager, NFB Private Wealth Management. A further R1.6 trillion resides in the Government Employees Pension Fund. These numbers place South Africa in a...