by Dianne Bayley | Dec 9, 2020 | Security and Legal
The Presidential Commission on the 4th Industrial Revolution (the Commission) was tasked with drawing up a strategy to enable South Africa to participate fully in the fourth industrial revolution (the 4IR), notes Ziyanda Ngcobo, Senior Associate at Webber Wentzel. Its...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 2, 2020 | Security and Legal
Security remains a consistent and ever-present challenge to the organisation today. The statistics that follow in its wake are certainly enough to keep any decision-maker awake at night. In 2020, Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report found that 94% of malware...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 2, 2020 | Security and Legal
The Competition Commissioner during the Commission’s Annual Conference (in November 2020), noted that the Commission will take a “decisive and proactive stance to ensure the balance of economic forces favour a shift to facilitating entry and a more...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2020 | Security and Legal
In June, the US Secret Service issued a security alert warning about an increase in hacks of managed service providers (MSPs), write Jurgen Sorton, Head of IT – MIT and Barry Kemp, Head of IaaS at Vox . Almost a year earlier, media reports highlighted what was...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 25, 2020 | Security and Legal
As the world becomes increasingly digital as a result of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), more and more of our devices are becoming connected to the open Internet as well as to each other, writes Vishal Barapatre, Chief Technology Officer at In2IT...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 24, 2020 | Security and Legal
The turmoil experienced in 2020 will bring along many structural and strategic changes, not just in our daily lives but in the realm of targeted attacks too – not in the least due to the now-broadened attack surface. New attack vectors, such as the targeting of...
