by Dianne Bayley | Apr 24, 2019 | Security and Legal
CEOs have a lot on their plate. They are ultimately responsible for business strategy and planning, as well as leading operations. It’s no surprise then, that they lean heavily on their technical leads and departments, particularly when it comes to information...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 17, 2019 | Security and Legal
Enterprise software will increasingly reside in the cloud. In some rare situations, on-premise instances of enterprise software will be desirable – for instance in mining or offshore drilling where business operations are in remote areas and not served by...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 16, 2019 | Security and Legal
So far this year, there have been five documented cases of organisations exposing their private data due to misconfigured S3 buckets or cloud databases. Wait, says Lori MacVittie, Principal Threat Evangelist, F5 Networks, let’s fix that: Due to intentionally...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 16, 2019 | Security and Legal
By Timothy Smit, Director and Megan Badenhorst, Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Facebook, according to Statista, had 2.32 billion monthly active users by the fourth quarter of 2018. Thanks to Facebook, you can post videos,...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 10, 2019 | Security and Legal
The conventional wisdom with malware is that you can kill it once and for all by wiping a system and starting from scratch. However, a particularly clever piece of surveillance software with Russian ties appears much more resistant. Even replacing drives won’t kill...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 9, 2019 | Security and Legal
Whether one plans to physically destroy old hard drives in-house or through a third-party IT asset disposition vendor, it needs to be done rather sooner than later. This is also not the only option for securely removing data from electronics and secure data erasure is...
