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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.com3 weeks 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…

Nearly two-thirds of organisations lack mature 24/7 security operations, Logicalis research finds

eriinfo.com1 month ago05 mins

Artur Martins, CISO, Logicalis Portugal and Roger Loh, Head of Solutions, Digital Transformation, Logicalis Singapore. Logicalis, the global technology service provider, today released the ‘Closing the Security Maturity Gap’ benchmark report, highlighting a widening gap between security ambition and operational readiness as organisations face increasingly sophisticated and AI-enabled threats. Despite significant investment in cyber security…

SA organisations under pressure to protect against ransomware onslaught

eriinfo.com2 months ago09 mins

Pieter Nel, regional head for SADC at Sophos in South Africa. (Image: Supplied) South African organisations continue to fall victim to ransomware, with compromised credentials the most common technical root cause of attacks, a lack of protection the leading operational cause and user devices the most common entry point. This is according to the latest…

AI adoption exposes governance gaps as organisations race to keep up

eriinfo.com3 months ago08 mins

AI adoption is gathering pace across the enterprise, bringing new opportunities alongside new risks. (Source: ChatGPT) The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a growing gap between what companies can deploy and their ability to govern it. This emerged during a panel discussion at the recent TrendAI Spark 2026 in Sun City. The…

Anthropic’s Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations

eriinfo.com4 months ago04 mins

US technology firm Anthropic says its artificial intelligence (AI) models hacked into the systems of three organisations during a cybersecurity test due to an error that gave them access to the internet. It comes just days after rival OpenAI said that its models had breached the systems of other companies, including AI tools hub Hugging…

DVT Insights Webinar to feature Databricks EMEA CTO on the future of AI-driven organisations

eriinfo.com4 months ago05 mins

Webinar: The role of AI in changing company structures and dynamic. Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. No longer confined to improving productivity through chatbots and automation tools, AI is increasingly being embedded into organisations through autonomous agents capable of planning, reasoning and executing tasks. As businesses begin deploying these technologies at scale, a…

Active Microsoft Exchange zero-day leaves organisations exposed

eriinfo.com6 months ago08 mins

An exploit in on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers has already been used in active attacks. (Graphic: Nicola Mawson | Pixabay) A vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange, allowing hackers to execute malicious code through specially crafted e-mails opened in Outlook Web Access, is a serious and urgent threat as it is already being actively exploited while no permanent…

Change Logic strengthens People Solutions division to help organisations tackle workforce, operating model change

eriinfo.com6 months ago09 mins

Michaela Voller, Executive for the People Solutions division at Change Logic. Change Logic CS has strengthened its People Solutions division as businesses increasingly look for practical support to navigate workforce transformation, organisational redesign and operational change. Businesses are under pressure from every angle right now – from AI and shifting workforce expectations to tighter operational…

Organisations delusional about ransomware recovery capability

eriinfo.com7 months ago07 mins

Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam. There is a growing disconnect between how confident organisations feel about cyber resilience and the reality of recovery outcomes, according to Veeam Software’s recently released Data Trust and Resilience Report 2026. The report is based on insights from more than 900 senior IT, security and risk leaders globally. Veeam said while…

New research shows legacy PKI puts digital identities at risk, with 56% of organisations experiencing services disruption

eriinfo.com10 months ago06 mins

PKI remains essential for secure digital identity. CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), which positions itself as the global leader in identity security, today announced the findings of a new report: Trends in PKI Security: A Global Study of Trends, Challenges & Business Impact. Conducted by Ponemon Institute, a leading independent research firm, the CyberArk-commissioned research analyses perspectives from…