The COVID-19 pandemic forced many companies to accelerate their Digital Transformation strategies. This meant that IT departments did not always have enough time to complete their usual due diligence, which involves the management of tech debt – the off-balance-sheet accumulation of all the technology work a company needs to do in the future. Alex McMullan, […]

IT teams have to deploy, manage and secure increasingly complex and hybrid networks. John Madisson, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet, explains five essential security functions for hybrid networks. Organisations have distributed data and workloads across both cloud environments and on-premises data centres. As a result, IT teams have to deploy, manage and secure increasingly complex and […]

Ephrem Tesfai, Sales Engineering Manager, Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Genetec, explains how companies can help employees mitigate the risks of cyberattacks. Since the onset of COVID-19, the pandemic changed our lives on a global scale in an unprecedented way, as it disrupted how individuals interact, communicate and work in a fundamental way. Within […]

In May 2020, the personal records of more than 24 million South Africans and nearly 794,000 companies were handed over to someone impersonating a client. It’s a hard lesson in how important it is to embed security, not just into the technology and the devices of a company, but into its people. Anna Collard, SVP […]

Jacob Chacko, Regional Business Head – Middle East, Saudi and South Africa (MESA) at HPE Aruba, explains what the hot technology talking point of the second half of 2020 will be. According to a Gartner analysis on the future of work trends 2020, the global pandemic has forever changed how organisations approach and view remote […]

Honeywell announced a handsfree, wearable technology that allows industrial workers to more safely, reliably and efficiently accomplish their tasks in the plant or the field. Honeywell Connected Plant Skills Insight Intelligent Wearables uses a head-mounted visual display that responds to voice and brings live data, documents, work procedures, as well as health and safety information […]

Any cyber security service is based on three core pillars of security operations which are people, process and technology. It is a known fact that Security Information and Event Management or SIEM is a complex technology and requires skilled resources to implement and manage. In addition, SIEM loses its value if alerts are not fine-tuned […]

The recent replacement of the decision-making tree with deep-learning neural networks to build tomorrow’s cyber security solutions, promises to be a significant differentiator amongst security vendors. Analytical tools usually in the realm of artificial intelligence and machine-learning take into consideration user profiles, user behavior, normal business, to establish thresholds for normal and abnormal behavior. This […]

Organisations face a growing number of increasingly complex and ever-evolving threats – and the most dangerous threats are often the hardest to discover. Take the insider threat or stolen credentials, for example. We have seen many high-profile attacks stem from the unauthorised use of legitimate user credentials, which can be extremely difficult to expose. The […]

Today, organisations are acutely aware of the need to become more digital in order to stay competitive and serve customers in new ways. We have entered an era of agile development practices, hybrid technology footprints and a resulting API economy. This all holds great promise, but as an upshot IT teams are coming under increasing […]