Image sourced from Shutterstock. Threat actors will never turn down an opportunity for innovation, and the COVID-19 pandemic has provided an enormous such opportunity. We are seeing this quite clearly in the numbers coming through – and the new ‘normal’ around distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is not normal at all. So says Carole Hildebrand, Senior Strategic Marketing Writer at NETSCOUT, a leading global provider of service assurance, security and business analytics. Writing in a recent blog, she explains, “After an astonishingly active first quarter of DDoS attack activity, things calmed down a bit for the second quarter of 2021. Unfortunately, ‘calmed down’ is a relative term.” NETSCOUT decided to compare the numbers of DDoS attacks during the COVID-19 era of 2020 and 2021 thu...
Fifth-generation (5G) wireless broadband is no longer a future technology – it’s here and is already available in limited key metropolitan areas in South Africa. The country, with its limited Internet access and infrastructure, high data costs and ailing economy, can benefit in multiple ways from 5G. However, there are also some issues that South Africa needs to deal with as communication service providers (CSPs) gear themselves for the 5G era and maximise the value the technology can bring. A recent study by IT services and consulting company Accenture, titled The Future Home in the 5G Era, opens a window into consumer lives in a 5G world and offers a roadmap for service providers to make hyperconnected 5G living a reality when we need it most. Globally, the value of access to information...
Image sourced from Notebook Check. Clear out your calendar the “Huawei Connect 2021 Virtual Event” takes place on Thursday, 23rd September. One of the many effects of living through a global pandemic is that everything had to go virtual from how we learn to how we earn. That’s why at this year’s Huawei Connect event, we Dive into Digital. While the world is slowly starting to go back to normal, many things are still virtual – including this event. The first keynote of the event is presented by Huawei South Africa CEO, Mr. Spawn Fan, discussing the Road to Digital Transformation in South Africa. Just last year, Mr. Fan attended the launch of Huawei’s free 5G training courses at the Walter Sisulu University (WSU). The program was key in Huawei’s efforts to facilitating digital transformation...