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Eliminating The Fear of The Unknown with Zero-Trust
The future of technology is limitless. Technological advances have been accelerated through increased network agility, integrated artificial...
Authentication methods your organisation should consider
‘Password123’. Gone are the days where this was all you needed to secure your desktop or keep people out of your inbox. Now with an ever-increasing...
What is Identity and Access Management (IAM)?
Identity and Access Management in regards to cybersecurity refers to a framework of policies, processes, and technologies that enable organisations...
The Endpoint of the new normal
Over the last year and a half, what has been dubbed the “new normal” has slowly but surely become the “normal”. It is now common place for sensitive...
Bringing Self-Defence to Cybersecurity
The day-to-day challenges faced by the modern CISO are monumental. You are charged with keeping your organisation’s most valuable assets safe from...
Why sharing is caring in Cloud Security
Over the years software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) have really taken off with many...
DataGroupIT opens new Lagos & Nairobi office
DataGroupIT is proud to announce we have opened two new offices across West and East Africa. Our new offices are in Lagos and Nairobi and offer our...
The new normal in cybersecurity is now just ‘normal’
Looking back on early 2020, one can be forgiven for believing that the call to stay home and work remotely was only going to last for a couple of...
A simple guide to adopting Zero-Trust
Implementing cybersecurity best practice in your organisation should always be viewed as a journey and not an event. The on-going process requires...
The next natural step in cloud-based architecture: SASE
Many of us are old enough to remember when cloud computing was considered to be a passing trend. In today’s world, technologies come and go faster...
How to build your cybersecurity team the effective way
The age old saying 'teamwork makes the dream work' is widely applicable in a multitude of environments and situations. Often applied to the sporting...
Tapping into the power of proactive cybersecurity with self-learning AI
As the world enhances its approach to dealing with a growing number of cybersecurity threats, the utilization of artificial intelligence to monitor...
How bad is it out there? The State of Cybersecurity in 2021
Has a week gone by without at least one headline that left you slightly nervous about the state of cybersecurity and whether your organisation could...
Top cybersecurity trends in the financial sector
As digitalisation in the global financial services sector and digital banking channel adoption gather pace, the risks posed by cybercriminals will...
The AI solution to rising cybersecurity threats
According to the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021, cybersecurity failure was rated alongside extreme weather, climate action failure...
The role of automation in cybersecurity
The old proverb, Fight fire with fire, is taking on new meaning in the battle CISOs and CIOs are waging against increasingly well-resourced and...
The value of managed security services in your organisation
IT has become mission critical, and increasingly acts as business’s trusted advisor in an increasingly digital marketplace. Companies have been...
Cybersecurity and the impact of working from home
At the issuance of lockdown orders, working from home largely sounded like heaven for most employees and even companies as they saw the opportunity...
Exploring the future of cloud solutions with Distributed Cloud
Since making a splash in the early part of the last decade, Cloud Computing has continued to evolve in order to cater to the varying use cases...
Understanding the cybersecurity mesh and its impact on your enterprise
In a rapidly evolving digital world, one can be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed with the width and breadth of threats, innovations, and...
The rise of ransomware in 2021
The level of espionage, stealth and tech jargon associated with cybercrime can easily lead one to believe that “it only happens in the movies”. That...
Rethinking cybersecurity attacks and how to manage them
Attacks are going to happen. As sure as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, you can trust that an attempt on your network at one point...
To VPN or Not to VPN?
Over the past few years, VPN vulnerabilities have been in the spotlight and talked about everywhere. There is always some vulnerability being abused...
Imperva’s Mobile Security App
How many apps do you currently have on your mobile device? Is this number a total across both your personal and professional devices? Did you know...
Multi-Vendor Firewall Change Tracker for Network Security Admins
As the spread of COVID-19 is forcing employees to work remotely, it’s put an unprecedented strain on organizations’ network and security teams, a...
Zero Trust Architecture: Best Practices for Safer Networks
A zero trust architecture enables organizations to prioritize access and restrictions. The goal is to implement a zero trust policy across all...
Monitoring 802.1X EAP: What You Need to Know
First Thing’s First As we’ve written about previously, the standard authentication protocol used on encrypted networks is Extensible Authentication...
Multi-factor authentication offers effective security, but not all solutions are created equal
Reports published by Proofpoint recently documenting MFA vulnerabilities in Microsoft 365 (Office 365) have likely caused concern among Microsoft...
Increase SSO security by going passwordless
The acceleration of digital transformation initiatives to support the remote workforce has, in turn, sped up the development of cloud-based...
5 Best Practices for Securing Privileged Access and Identities for the Cloud Management Console
Over the next few weeks, we’ll explore best practices for securing privileged accounts and identities in common cloud scenarios. This series can...
AI email security: Understanding the human behind the keyboard
At the heart of any email attack is the goal of moving the recipient to engage: whether that’s clicking a link, filling in a form, or opening an...
Notice the unnoticed: Threat Hunting by SandBlast Agent
By Yaelle Harel and Boaz Barzel Threat Hunting is a proactive approach for finding and remediating undetected cyber-attacks. It is a process that...
Avoid Alert Fatigue: How to Automatically Get Rid of WAF False Positive
Alert fatigue – introducing false positives in WAF All WAF experts know what it’s like handling massive amounts of alerts. They’re also very likely...
How AI detected a hacker hiding in an energy grid within hours of deployment
A cyber-criminal had already made the first steps of a critical intrusion at a European energy organization when the company deployed AI for cyber...
Cloud-sourcing: Using Global Threat Intelligence to Instantly Protect Your Cloud Assets
By Jonathan Maresky, CloudGuard Product Marketing Manager, published October 21, 2020 When it comes to security in the cloud, companies face...
Imperva A Seven-Time Magic Quadrant Leader and Named Highest for Completeness of Vision for WAF
Gartner has published its 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and Imperva has been named a Leader for the seventh...
DataCenter Security Event
Data centre security broadly refers to the array of technologies and practices used to protect a facility’s physical infrastructure and network...
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