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…
Nairobi — The African Union and regional economic communities have signed a new agreement to strengthen coordination in the use of the African Standby Force, in a move aimed at improving Africa’s collective response to emerging security threats. The African Union Commission said the AU, Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and Regional Mechanisms (RMs) signed a…
Should the world move away sharply from fossil fuels, or manage a slower, more careful retreat? That question underpinned many of the speeches from global leaders at this year’s High-level Week General Debate in New York, as climate change emerged as one of the defining fault lines dividing Member States. UN News reviewed some of…
Hangu, Pakistan – Police officer Fayyaz Khan and his colleagues ducked for cover as drones carrying explosives rained them down on their checkpost in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province this year. The April 16 attack was claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), commonly known as the Pakistan Taliban, and its fighters then opened fire from all…
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…
A dual U.K.-Iranian national who was arrested earlier this week on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at the U.S.-run RAF Fairford air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran was released on bail Saturday. The 25-year-old man was arrested in London on Thursday, and police have searched…
Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – Ahmad Mohsen, 24, sits in a shop selling prepaid internet access cards in Deir el-Balah. Three years ago, before Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza started, he imagined a different future. He had graduated with a degree in nursing and was preparing to complete the procedures required to obtain his professional licence….
Garrett Boss joins Laserfiche as chief information officer. Laserfiche — the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation — today announced the appointment of Garrett Boss as chief information officer. Boss will oversee Laserfiche’s global IT services team and business transformation office, including deployment of internal Laserfiche solutions and all other…
Heino Gevers, vice-president of global customer success at Mimecast. As CISOs head into their annual budget planning season, many will be looking for more available spend to battle a rapid increase in the scale and sophistication of cyber threats. Research from Mimecast shows that although security leaders are urgently seeking access to more budget, security…
Brazil, Germany, India and Japan have backed a permanent African seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), calling for urgent reform of the Council to reflect contemporary geopolitical realities. The four countries, under the Group of Four (G4), made their position known in a joint statement issued after their foreign ministers met in New…
