by Dianne Bayley | Jul 4, 2023 | Workplace 2020
By Richard Firth – American economist Thomas Sowell once said: “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”While there...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 4, 2023 | Security and Legal
Cyberattacks remains an omnipresent threat that has brought some of the foremost organisations and their sophisticated datacentre infrastructures to their knees, writes Hennie Colyn, Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric. According to recent...
by Dianne Bayley | May 21, 2023 | Security and Legal
South Africa loses R2.2 billion per year to cybercrime, according to a 2020 Accenture report. Kaspersky research shows that 32.5% of local users were affected by online threats last year. Four out of five South African organisations – 78% – were hit by...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 10, 2022 | Security and Legal
A massive 72% of state and local government organisations attacked by ransomware had their data encrypted – 7% more than the cross-sector average.In fact, according to Sophos’s “The State of Ransomware in State and Local Government 2022” report, only 20% of state and...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 24, 2022 | Security and Legal
Nowadays, threat actors are leaning on new tools and techniques to improve the efficiency of their attacks, write FortiGuard Labs team: Jonas Walker, Security Strategist at FortiGuard Labs and Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist & VP Global Threat Intelligence...
