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New partnership brings Mimecast’s cyber resilience platform to partners across Africa, helping organisations strengthen protection against evolving cyber threats across e-mail, data, AI-powered environments

eriinfo.com2 days ago06 mins

First Distribution and Mimecast expanding cyber resilience across Africa First Distribution, which positions itself as Africa’s leading value-added distributor of technology solutions, today announced a new partnership with Mimecast, which positions itself as a global leader in securing humans, data and AI, to make Mimecast’s integrated cyber resilience platform available to partners across Africa. Through…

Your 2027 cyber budget is probably funding the wrong things

eriinfo.com2 days ago05 mins

More spend. Stronger resilience? Before you sign off your 2027 cyber budget, challenge what it will deliver. Join Wolfpack and Risk X Group’s final webinar of 2026 to explore the priorities that turn cybersecurity investment into real resilience. Every year, security budgets get approved on a familiar list: new tools, renewed licences and leftover projects….

PHP2Shell alarm a major cyber security wake-up call

eriinfo.com4 days ago015 mins

Critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities threaten millions of websites with potential remote code execution attacks. (Image source: iStock) Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language powering about three-quarters of the web, have triggered a global cyber security alert after details of the flaws, dubbed PHP2Shell, reportedly leaked before their planned disclosure and patching. The vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618…

Shadow AI a growing concern, warn cyber security experts

eriinfo.com1 week ago09 mins

Shadow AI is a growing concern, warn cyber security technology experts, as the world marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month. As Cybersecurity Awareness Month is marked in October, cyber security companies and technology experts are warning of growing concerns about shadow AI – the use of AI tools without an organisation’s approval or oversight. Richard Frost, head…

SA grapples with growing demand for AI and cyber security skills

eriinfo.com1 week ago014 mins

Tech professionals and educators agree that SA needs to emphasise AI and cyber security training to keep up with advances in emerging technologies. (Image source: iStock) South African organisations must intensify cyber security and AI training and strengthen collaboration between education institutions and industry to address critical technology skills shortages, cyber security professionals and educators…

iOCO targets AI, cyber security, cloud acquisitions

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago09 mins

Ashona Kooblall, group CFO of iOCO. Technology services group iOCO plans to expand its portfolio through acquisitions in artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security, cloud and digital transformation, as it seeks to capitalise on demand for modern technology following a 39% increase in annual profit. Ashona Kooblall, group CFO of iOCO, told ITWeb yesterday in an…

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Africa Must Prepare for AI-Powered Cyber Threats At Scale

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago011 mins

Anthropic’s threat report reveals how AI is making cyberattacks and influence campaigns faster, more scalable and harder to detect. Anthropic’s recent threat intelligence report reveals how malicious actors are using its own artificial intelligence (AI) agents to conduct cyberattacks, surveillance operations and online influence campaigns. Africa’s leaders should be especially vigilant, given the continent’s relatively…

Short-term risk from AI and cyber security has spiked, warns Marsh Africa

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago010 mins

South African employees are adopting AI at work faster than their organisations can respond, according to Oliver Wyman research. Short-term risks linked to AI and cyber security have increased significantly, according to Marsh Africa, which this week presented research showing South Africans are adopting AI faster than institutions can respond. Marsh Africa is part of…

Cyber security is everyone’s problem. Here’s how to build a security culture that lasts

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago09 mins

Natalie Borcherds, Security Services Manager and Nikishca Moolman, Information Security Consultant at Galix. Cyber security training remains one of the most persistent challenges in corporate South Africa, not because organisations don’t invest in it, but because too many still treat it as a once-off exercise. Ticking a compliance box and moving on. The result? Employees…

Guardrisk distances itself from MIP cyber breach

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago04 mins

Guardrisk stresses that the exposure of the binder holder does not mean its own systems were breached. (Image source: iStock) Guardrisk has moved to distance itself from the MIP Holdings cyber breach, saying neither it nor parent company Momentum Group has any exposure to the technology provider. In a statement to ITWeb, the insurer says…