Security and Legal

Protect your business against cybercrime

Jun 5, 2018

In the wake of last year’s surge of debilitating ransomware attacks, many businesses are investing heavily in cybersecurity technology, with Gartner predicting that worldwide security spending will reach unprecedented highs at an estimated $96-billion this year alone....

Jasco rolls out own biometric solution

May 22, 2018

Jasco has installed an access control solution from its own security portfolio, the Touchless Biometric (TBS) Access Control System, at its head office in Midrand. The system was deployed in under two months (including enrolling all employees and biometrics on a...

GDPR is coming: comply or die …

May 8, 2018

On 25 May this year, a new piece of legislation comes into effect in Europe that could have severe consequences for non-compliant South African businesses. by Tracy Bolton, director: general business at SAP Africa The General Data Protection Regulation – or GDPR for...

Expats must go beyond understanding new law

May 8, 2018

South African expatriates need not only understand the new expatriate tax law, but also act on it or face dire tax consequences. By Jonty Leon, attorney and financial emigration legal manager The amendment to the South African Income Tax Act No. 58 of 1962 has been...

Change of mindset needed for security

Apr 30, 2018

Looking back on 2017 gives some clues to the security realities we must face in 2018 and beyond. At the same time, though, companies must start confronting disturbing new trends, say Jeremy Capell, executive: cyber resilience at Internet Solutions and ContinuitySA and...

Unlock online security with biometrics

Apr 24, 2018

With smartphones increasingly using biometric authentication as a theft deterrent, the potential for such techniques – which rely on the natural, inherent features of a person like their fingerprint, voice or face to confirm their identity – to become the standard in...

Individual integrity and its role in governance

Apr 24, 2018

Integrity has no expiry date. You’ve either got it or you haven’t. By Auguste Coetzer and J Michael Judin An honest, diligent company director does not become a crook on the make the moment some arbitrary term limit has been exceeded. This states the obvious. However,...

WhoIs: where are you?

Apr 24, 2018

In April 2016, the European Union (EU) Parliament approved the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR will repeal the existing Data Protection Directive in the EU when it comes into force on 25 May 2018. By Somayya Khan, partner at Adams & Adams...

Build a company culture that identifies risk

Apr 10, 2018

By Riaan Bekker – In 1987, a London Underground ticket seller was alerted to a burning tissue on one of the escalators. They duly put it out, but didn’t report the incident. If they had, the slowly-building inferno under the station might have been discovered in...

Does your mobile strategy leave you open to cyber- crime?

Apr 10, 2018

By Sanjay Vaid – A report by IDC predicts that there will be over 1,7-billion smartphone users by 2020. When added to other figures supplied by the IDC’s FutureScape: World Mobility 2017 Predictions report, IT spending on mobile is predicted to peak at 50% of...

Professionalised cyber-crime a key business issue

Apr 10, 2018

By Mike Rogers – Cyber-criminals had a banner year in 2017, with ransomware variants like WannaCry, Petya and NotPetya bringing major organisations such as National Health Service trusts in the UK, Spain’s Telefonica and the National Bank of Ukraine to their...

Users the biggest cloud security risk

Mar 20, 2018

Cloud is coming into its own. Forrester says that public cloud platforms, business services, and applications will reach $236-billion by 2020. With cloud spending predicted to be six times that of IT spending over the same period, a cloud strategy is how companies...

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