Outplay, outwit, outsmart with PCI DCC 3.0
Traditional PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Security Data Standards), as outlined by the PCI Security Council, were traditionally enforced to ensure that merchants’ perimeter payment-card security initiatives were in line with the minimum legislation, but not...Incorporating security into facility design
Security within facilities – CCTV, access controls, alarms, fire detection and suppression and so on – is today increasingly integrated and digital, yet it is often an afterthought when a new building is designed, says Kobus Le Roux, national sales and marketing...Avoiding the consequences of data loss
Protecting data has become of the utmost importance for organisations today, as information if the lifeblood of a business, says Gareth Tudor, CEO of Altonet. There are many consequences should sensitive information fall into the wrong hands, however, as the workforce...BYOD: securing the mobile business
Mobile threats are growing exponentially, as a flood of mobile devices is hitting the enterprise. If the past is anything to go by, 2013 will see an unprecedented number of threats hitting the mobile enterprise. Over and above lost and stolen devices, there are...Meet the dark side of social media
Over the past few months, hundreds of South Africa’s approximately 6,19-million registered Facebook users have become the victims of cloning. This practice, which is also known as deep mining, is when cybercriminals lift a user’s name and profile picture from their...