Sunitha Chalam, a partner at the Singapore office of global strategic communications and advisory firm Brunswick Group. We still talk about cyber incidents as if they’re black swan events – unexpected, rare and shocking. “But the truth is that cyber incidents have gone from being something that only happens occasionally to something that happens regularly.”…
South Africa has the legislative foundation to respond to nation-scale cyberattacks but the practical capacity has yet to be realised. A wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks earlier this week disrupted connectivity across more than half a dozen South African hosting providers and internet specialists, including 1-grid, Xneelo, Network Platforms, Host Africa and Domains.co.za. Tens…
Cyber threats have evolved faster than most organisations. (Image source: 123RF) Cyber security in 2026 has moved beyond antivirus software and firewalls, and into the executive boardroom, directly influencing how organisations grow, scale and respond to disruptions. Before COVID, the traditional approach made sense: build strong defences, keep threats out and respond when something goes…
South Africa is becoming a prominent target for global cyber attacks due to perceived weaknesses in its cyber security defences, with Cloud Security Alliance’s Ayanda Peta calling for consistent basic cyber practices. A lot still needs to be done to improve South African organisations’ cyber security posture. This is the observation of Ayanda Peta, president…
MiDO Academy graduation 2025 cohort. (Image: supplied by MiDO Academy). Not-for-profit youth empowerment organisation MiDO Academy has developed a strategy – inspired by the Springboks – to bridge the gap between youth labour underutilisation and a critical national shortage of cyber security skills. The academy, part of the MiDO Group which incorporates the MiDO Foundation,…
Lukas van der Merwe, Associate Director, Cyanre. Cyanre, a specialist DFIR firm, is proud to announce its participation at the ITWeb Security Summit 2026, where it will address one of the most critical gaps in modern cyber security: how organisations respond when defences inevitably fail. Taking place at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape…
In this episode of ITWeb TV, Adam Smith, cyber lead for Southern Africa at the British High Commission discusses the need for Africa’s governments to work together in improving cyber deterrents, the need to improve cyber skills, why the British High Commission has a cyber lead in Southern Africa, and the rise in state-sponsored cyber…
A hacking group breached the academic software Canvas, used by thousands of schools and universities across the globe.
Wits University had an enrolment of 41 702 students as of 2025. (Image source: Wits) The University of Witwatersrand (Wits) has restored its learning management system, which had been compromised by hackers. This was confirmed by Shirona Patel, communications manager at Wits University, in a phone call with ITWeb. The confirmation comes after the ShinyHunters…
The author, Mimecast’s Heino Gevers Your employees are being headhunted — not for jobs, but for your data. South Africa have experienced a 46% increase in insider cyber risk in 2026 compared to 2025, according to Mimecast’s State of Human Risk research, surpassing a global average of 44%. More telling still, 63% of South African…
