Bridging the Gap Between Privileged Access Management & Identity Management In today's rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, organisations face the daunting task of protecting their digital assets against increasingly sophisticated threats. Amidst this...
The CIPC hack and what it means for South African companies Recently, the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) of South Africa fell victim to a significant data breach, highlighting alarming vulnerabilities in cybersecurity practices. This breach,...
Fortifying Kenya's Digital Frontier: Navigating the Evolving East African Cybersecurity Landscape The rise of digitalization and digital economies is shaping a dynamic digital landscape across Africa. Software engineers play a pivotal role in this transformation,...
Nigeria's Cyber Security Battleground: Inside the Rise of Ransomware and AI-Powered Scams As the digital landscape evolves, so to do the threats that businesses in Nigeria face. In recent years, the country has witnessed a surge in cyberattacks, with ransomware...
In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, a new era of threats has emerged, one that is more personal, targeted, and sophisticated than ever before. Gone are the days of generic, broad-spectrum attacks. Today's threat landscape is characterised by precision strikes...
In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, 2023 has been marked by the dazzling rise of AI, crowned as the buzzword of the year. The groundbreaking advancements in AI, spearheaded by innovations like ChatGPT and Google Bard, have not only captured public...
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks remain a formidable threat to organizations worldwide. Imperva, a leader in DDoS mitigation, introduces its Contingency DDoS Protection—a robust backup solution designed to...
In a digital age shadowed by cyber threats, an alarming 71% of organizations have been victims of ransomware attacks, each costing an average of $4.35 million. This isn't just a sporadic digital skirmish; it's a full-scale war against corporate security. Understanding...
As we venture deeper into the digital landscape, Check Point Research (CPR) unveils its comprehensive projections for 2024, revealing a surge in cyberattacks and the evolution of threat landscapes. We’ll dissects the nuanced insights Check Point provides, spanning...
Maintaining a robust network security posture is paramount in the digital age, and at the heart of this defence lies firewall security standards. This article delves into the intricacies of these standards, exploring their importance, best practices, firewall rules,...
In an era where email is the lifeblood of business communication, the threat landscape has evolved, with phishing campaigns leveraging generative AI tools becoming increasingly sophisticated. This blog delves into the imperative role of AI-driven email security, using...
In the realm of cybersecurity, the distinction between a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and a traditional network firewall is a pivotal consideration for IT professionals. Let's unravel the intricacies of these security stalwarts and understand what sets them apart in...
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the sheer number of acronyms and security solutions can be overwhelming. Today, we're diving into the realm of XDR (Extended Detection and Response) and exploring how it sets itself apart from other security...
In today's fast-paced world of software development and cybersecurity, the constant barrage of notifications and alerts has become a major issue for developers and security teams. With the exponential increase in data being processed by organisations, a surge in...
Email security has always been a significant concern for IT teams, but the traditional approach of either excluding employees entirely or including them without proper control has proved ineffective. While it is clear that email security should not solely depend on...
In the world of cybersecurity, Zero Trust Security is widely viewed as one of the most effective approaches to security because it removes the concept of trust from the equation altogether. Delinea’s Zero Trust Security model in particular leverages identity services...
As more businesses move their operations to the cloud, the threat of cyberattacks increases exponentially. Protecting your assets in the cloud is just as important as locking your doors and setting your alarms. However, the threat vectors for cloud security are...
Security teams are often burdened with a variety of tasks, such as dealing with an increased attack surface, enabling remote work, and managing multiple security tools. In addition, with the rise of more sophisticated phishing campaigns, now supported by AI tools, it...
The concept of zero trust security has been around for over a decade, with Forrester Research Inc. coining the term back in 2010. Originally, zero trust was synonymous with micro-segmentation, which creates secure zones in data centers and cloud deployments to isolate...
In today's digital landscape, securing an organisation's devices is crucial for maintaining data confidentiality and protecting against cyber attacks. However, with the rise of BYOD policies and the use of unmanaged devices by third-party service providers, CISOs face...
In the world of cybersecurity, it's essential to understand the potential pathways that attackers might use to compromise an organisation's sensitive assets. That's where attack path modelling comes in - it creates a comprehensive map of all possible routes that lead...
In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, time is money, and it's essential to find ways to optimise efficiency while ensuring digital safety. Leading cyber security software and services company, Imperva recently unpacked six key steps that cybersecurity teams can...
In the United States, government has recommended the zero-trust cybersecurity model as a way to ensure baseline security practices and mitigate risks associated with cloud-based infrastructure. Every organisation should actively move towards this model. The core...
In today's digital world, authentication is the new entry point into our networks, and it's critical to ensure maximum security. With the rise of cyberattacks, simply changing passwords periodically and implementing two-factor authentication (2FA) is no longer enough....
As organisations continue to face cyber threats and vulnerabilities, the need for effective cyber risk management practices has become increasingly critical. However, many current practices fall short in producing the intended results, and organisations must also...
Cloud computing is by no means a new concept; it has been around since the 1950s when technologies such as mainframe computing, utility computing, grid computing, and time-sharing were first introduced. Today, cloud infrastructures are becoming the norm for...
Let's talk about the future of data security. As we move further into 2023, Imperva predicts that we'll see some major changes in the way companies approach data security. With an increasingly diverse data landscape, the people, processes, and technology in...
In today's digital age, web applications have become a critical component for many medium and large organisations. These organisations rely on their web applications to generate revenue, establish a brand image, and foster customer relationships. Unfortunately, web...
In recent years, cloud-hosted data has become increasingly popular, with spending on cloud services reaching $178 billion in 2021, a 37% increase from 2020. As more organisations shift to cloud-managed environments, the risk of cyberattacks targeting this data grows,...
Effective Attack Surface Management (ASM) is essential for understanding and mitigating cyber risks to your organisation. It can be broken down into four key parts: discovery, assessment and prioritisation, risk prevention, and integration. Discovery is the foundation...
As businesses continue to shift their operations to the cloud, it's essential to have a comprehensive security solution in place to protect your critical assets and data. With cyber attacks becoming more sophisticated and frequent, it's crucial to have a reliable...
This year, as cyber incidents continued to be one the rise, one of the key topics of consideration was the role of strong authentication in protecting organisations against the risk of cyber threats. And despite the widespread use of passwords for authentication, they...
“Shadow IT refers to (the use of) IT devices, software and services outside the ownership (approval) or control of IT organisations.” – Gartner The above definition gives the idea that Shadow IT can only be carried out by malicious actors when it is actually more...
Definition: A data breach is a cyber-attack in which sensitive or confidential data has been accessed or disclosed to an unauthorised individual or software system. Data breaches normally come in the form of exposed customer credit card numbers, corporate data, source...
Increasing levels of remote work and the accompanying migration to the cloud has seen a renewed emphasis on data protection, proactive threat monitoring and IAM (Identity & Access Management). The last 2 years have solidly established the fact that the cloud is...
With more than 2,200 cyberattacks per day, it’s easy for organisations to start feeling like sitting ducks. The alarming increase in cybersecurity threats makes it seem like just a matter of time before your organisation hits the headlines as the latest victim of a...
Social engineering, the practice of manipulating a victim into believing they are communicating with a trusted individual or platform, so they give up confidential information, remains one of the biggest threats to an organisations cybersecurity. With an estimated...
As we mark two years of operating under the new normal of Work from Anywhere, Hybrid Work and increased Bring Your Own Device environments, it goes without saying that the cybersecurity attack surface has exponentially increased for most organisations. This presents...
If the numbers are anything to go by, now more than ever is a highly stressful time to be tasked with maintaining the cybersecurity posture of an organisation. According to research conducted by Darktrace, their artificial intelligence (AI) autonomously interrupted...
Few things evolve as rapidly as the state of cybersecurity and what should be prioritised to protect an organisation from malicious actors. In recent times ransomware has dominated the headlines with businesses, both large and small, often being on the receiving end...
The time is 12:53pm. You just got to your favourite coffee place to seal the deal with an exciting prospective client. Suddenly you remember that there’s a document on your company server that you need to quickly go through before your prospective client arrives. You...
The world of technology is an ever changing one with cybersecurity being the epitome of that. Cybersecurity is an area in which the inability to adapt to change has visible and almost immediate negative consequences. It is because of this that even though it is hard...
A lot has been said about the importance of a business being agile. Business agility is crucial as the ability to adapt to your environment in real time may result in a competitive advantage. This is not only true in regards to a business being able to adapt the...
What a year it’s been and there’s certainly a lot to learn as we complete year 2 of the dreaded “new normal”. March 2020 marked the start of a drive for enterprise reinvention which has carried on in to 2021. Prior to, some business leaders might have figured it...
The future of technology is limitless. Technological advances have been accelerated through increased network agility, integrated artificial intelligence (AI) and the ever-evolving Internet of Things. All of this has culminated in building the capacity to deploy,...
‘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 scope of applications, coupled with the exponential increase in data breaches, there is no greater time than now to...
Identity and Access Management in regards to cybersecurity refers to a framework of policies, processes, and technologies that enable organisations to define and manage the roles and access privileges of users and devices. As a cyber security best practice, IAM is a...
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 corporate work to be tackled in the home. Work-issued devices such as laptops, phones printers etc continue to populate...
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 an increasingly sophisticated and growing number of threats. Remote workforces and advancing technology create more...
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 organisations utilising one or all of these deployment models. Naturally, these deployment models come with their own...
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 regional clients greater access to our team of cybersecurity experts who are dedicated to securing your reputation. Take...
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 weeks. As we inch towards the two-year mark since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly clear...
Implementing cybersecurity best practice in your organisation should always be viewed as a journey and not an event. The on-going process requires regular revision, adaptation, and evolution. One of the most recent steps in improving organisational security approach...
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 than the buzzwords that accompany them. We can be forgiven for predicting that the cloud would face the same fate....
The age old saying 'teamwork makes the dream work' is widely applicable in a multitude of environments and situations. Often applied to the sporting world, it’s just at home in the corporate setting. And there’s no place where it rings truer more than when it comes to...
As the world enhances its approach to dealing with a growing number of cybersecurity threats, the utilization of artificial intelligence to monitor the security surface has grown in interest and application. AI however comes in many forms and models. In this blog we...
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 be the next big target? One of the most common questions floating around the boardroom of late is, ‘How bad is it out...
As digitalisation in the global financial services sector and digital banking channel adoption gather pace, the risks posed by cybercriminals will accelerate in unison. The global COVID-19 pandemic also drove a surge in cyberattack attempts on banking institutions....
According to the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021, cybersecurity failure was rated alongside extreme weather, climate action failure and human-led environmental damage as one of the risks with the highest likelihood. Cybercrime researcher 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 dangerous cybercriminals. These cybercriminal syndicates—often linked to state actors—have been rapid adopters of emerging...
IT has become mission critical, and increasingly acts as business’s trusted advisor in an increasingly digital marketplace. Companies have been digitalising rapidly, especially over the past 18 months as new working models have begun to emerge. The IT environment is...
At the issuance of lockdown orders, working from home largely sounded like heaven for most employees and even companies as they saw the opportunity to work on largely their own terms while saving on various overheads. This joy however overlooked the ever existing...
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 presented by enterprises all over the world. With the buzz word culture engulfing the technology lexicon, you would be...
In a rapidly evolving digital world, one can be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed with the width and breadth of threats, innovations, and technologies an organisation has to be aware of to stay ahead of the curve. Compounded with the shift in landscape brought on by a...
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 couldn’t be further from the truth. In 2021 the global spotlight is firmly on cyber-criminals or more specifically,...
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 or another is inevitable. Check Point Research estimates there has been an astounding 97% year-on-year increase in...