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South African Healthcare Industry Vulnerable for Cyberattacks

Cyber criminals are always on the lookout for the easiest way to breach a system. In the past, this often involved sophisticated coding to break into a network and steal critical data. However, the criminals have changed their method of attack as well as their focus. Over the last year or so, they have turned their attention to those industries that are most vulnerable as well as making use of
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Cybersecurity Managed Services

There is a very high percentage of websites that have vulnerabilities that could potentially lead to the loss of sensitive corporate data. Think of a tap that leaks constantly, getting it fixed will take a few minutes but we procrastinate or put it on the list to do tomorrow, cyber security is similar, vulnerabilities need to be remedied immediately. Customer information is considered crucial information because in most cases, if
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Cyber Risk Profiling

Our cyber analyst team works with you to identify your key cyber risk areas including your: industry profile, business processes, stakeholders, critical IT infrastructure, customers and suppliers, brands, proprietary assets, sensitive information and key competitors. As part of building your cyber risk profile, we automatically scan your perimeter and external, customer-facing systems for discovery and monitoring of potential vulnerabilities. Additionally, we can build out your cyber risk dossier to include
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Take Action South Africa

Due to the lack of attention and security efforts, South Africa is becoming one of the main countries that cyber criminals are turning to for open attacks. The crisis is found in both private citizen and corporate situations where personal information is accessed and stolen and critical company data and proprietary information is accessed. Without confirmed legislation in place, it is up to the individuals and companies to take action
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Scottrade suffers major data breach

October is Cyber Security awareness month, somewhat ironic in light of the retail brokerage firm Scottrade Inc, who just disclosed a breach involving contact information and possibly Social Security numbers on 4.6 million customers, in late 2013-early 2015. CNBC, news associate Jacob Pramuk goes on to explain that, “the incident took place around late 2013 and early 2014 and the affected database contains Social Security numbers and email addresses of
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