Malicious malware and your business
Today, malware attacks are more frequent, devious and more targeted, successfully penetrating many businesses that consider their security strategies to be adequate, says Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO ESET Southern Africa. Businesses should be aware that your security...Companies don’t see ROI on firewalls
Investing in a best-of-breed firewall gives companies excellent protection against security threats but they could be missing real insight into what’s really happening on the firewall – and who is doing what on the Web. The result: the firewall is not leveraged to its...Password-protected is not necessarily safe
Over a decade ago, e-mail worms began perpetuating themselves in password protected ways, such as ZIP archives, with the password needed to unlock the file included in the e-mail, all as part of the scam. “This trick has rarely been seen since then, until now,” says...IT security imperative for business
IT security spend is too often seen as a grudge purchase by business management. But the fact is, effectively securing enterprise networks is a business imperative, says Networks Unlimited. Anton Jacobsz, MD of Arbor Networks distributor Networks Unlimited, points out...Endpoint security must not be forgotten
The consumerisation of IT means that companies’ intellectual property and intelligence is dispersed on users’ devices and laptops. Most users have security in the form of antivirus and anti-spyware. These have become a given. “Not so,” says Richard Broeke, an IT...