Security appliances on growth path

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) security appliance market recorded year-on-year growth in both customer revenue and shipments during the second quarter of 2013, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Referencing its EMEA Quarterly Security Appliance...

Finance industry vulnerable to attack

Financial firms could be missing out on attack paths to key industry infrastructure, leaving the sector vulnerable to a major cyber-attack. IT security firm MWR InfoSecurity issued this warning after the Bank of England and the Treasury urged board directors in the...

Connected devices to overtake people

There will be more than 8-billion connected video devices installed by 2017. This is an enormous number in the absolute, but more interestingly, it implies that every human on the planet will possess more than one connected device by this time, on average. This is...

African telcos urged to rethink models

As African telecommunications operators start to position themselves to offer voice, video and broadband services as bundled offerings, they need to rethink the way that they provision said services and market them to end-users. That’s according to Mark Tinka, head of...

Kaspersky patent suit dismissed

Kaspersky Lab was been vindicated in a lawsuit initiated by Lodsys, a company located in Texas that operates as a Patent Assertion Entity. Kaspersky Lab, along with 54 other companies including Atari, Symantec and Estee Lauder, were originally named in Lodsys’...