'South Africa a key target for online organised crime'

Cyber crime and cyber threat dashboards, embedding security strategies within the business, securing the IOT, digital forensics, and wireless security.

Organised cyber crime is becoming a serious problem in SA.

MWR is running its cyber security challenge, for the fifth year, and is calling on South Africans to enter, as there is a chance of winning a trip to this year's Hackfu event in the UK.

IOT is a vast, complex space which has different meanings to different industries, and is forcing us to re-think our approach.

For security practitioners tasked with protecting corporate resources from occupational abuse and misuse.

South African consumers must approach mobile banking apps with awareness and caution.

The traditional approach of protecting against infected documents by looking for malware and blocking it does not provide 100% guaranteed protection, as zero-day malware still infects networks.

IT security is dynamic and ever-changing, and as consumerism drives lightning-fast advances in consumer and enterprise technologies, security technologies are often left lagging.

Apps like WhatsApp, Skype, Google Hangouts and "probably WeChat too" pose security risks for businesses, says Pankaj Gupta.

Mobile applications have become a way for fraudsters to access consumers' personal data easily.

The Internet of things is slowly taking over people's lives, and an era in which all devices are connected and interoperable will be a reality in only a few years.