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Sourced from Silicon Angle HP Inc today announced enhancements to its HP Wolf Security endpoint protection portfolio, with the launch of Sure Access Enterprise (SAE)[i]. SAE protects users with rights to access sensitive data, systems, and applications. It prevents attackers from hi-jacking these privileged sessions – even if the users’ endpoint device is compromised, the access to high value data and systems can remain secure. This stops minor endpoint breaches turning into major security incidents. Available for both HP and non-HP devices, SAE leverages HP’s unique task isolation technology to run each privileged access session within its own, hardware-enforced virtual machine (VM). This ensures the confidentiality and integrity of the data being accessed, isolating it from any malware i...

Gilchrist Mushwana, Director at BDO South Africa and Head of Cybersecurity Service Line Ransomware attacks are real, ever-present and wreaking havoc across the board for businesses. The bad news is that this type of cybercrime does not just target large multinationals. In fact, these are most likely avoided as an attack is expected, making SMEs a much easier target. Gilchrist Mushwana, Director at BDO South Africa and Head of Cybersecurity Service Line, discusses the evolution of ransomware and the impact of the growing sophistication of these attacks on the country’s small and medium sized business sector. According to research done by Kaspersky, ransomware attacks in South Africa have doubled over the comparative period of 2021. Transnet, Citypower, Dischem, Uber… these are just some of ...