IT Managers: How to Protect Your Users Against Ransomware

The best way to protect yourself, your users and your business against ransomware is by setting up a proactive defence. The ransomware statistics paint a frightening picture for anyone in charge of IT: In Q3 2016 alone, 18 million new malware samples were captured. Source: Panda Labs   What that means is that the criminals…

Cibecs Joins Silicon Valley Top 20

Cibecs Joins Silicon Valley Companies to be Listed on Top 20 Most Promising Storage Solution Providers Cibecs, a leading South African endpoint backup, protection and security solution, has been recognised as one of the 20 Most Promising Storage Solutions by CIO Review. The list, compiled by industry insiders, highlights leading global technology providers that offer effective…

4 Signs You Need a New Endpoint Data Backup Solution

With more workers depending on laptops it is more important than ever to ensure that the work protected and stored on those devices is backed up and protected. Forrester Research says that 45% of corporate executives don’t follow policies for data use and handling. Underlining how at risk almost half of a business’s data actually…

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Outlook Email Backup / PST Backup with Cibecs

Outlook Email Backup with Cibecs Cibecs software is built to address business data backup requirements and provides IT with an effective tool for protecting Outlook email from loss and backing up large PSTs. Cibecs is optimised for easy Outlook email backup and PST backup, and makes recovering all emails and PSTs and an entire Outlook…

Corporate Governance Compliance Checklist – Data Protection

Data Protection & Corporate Governance Compliance Checklist for Business IT Compliance & Legalities around Data Protection for Businesses: A Corporate Governance Compliance checklist Corporate Governance Compliance and the requirements around Data Protection have become increasingly important to businesses globally due to the consequences of being non-compliant, as well as the often devastating results of data…

Data Breaches 2012: The biggest and worst data breaches this year

From January to mid-June there were incalculable incidents of data loss/breach across the world. Cyber attacks on government and medical institutions, especially, have seen a rapid increase with Medical Health Records selling for $50 per record on the black market.

Another Cyber Security Attack – Another 1.5m people affected.

US Cyber Security Attack impacts 1.5 million credit card users First exposed by leading data cyber security blog, KrebsonSecurity, this data breach at Atlanta-based Global Payments (a credit and debit card processor) is currently believed to be confined to North-America account holders.

Gidani and it’s R400 million (per year) data breach faux pas.

How data breach nearly cost Lotteries operator its license to trade Gidani (licensed operator of the South Africa national lottery) recently came perilously close to losing its R400 million a year contract due to a massive data breach. The reason for this near-miss was its failure to secure its business critical data (a requirement of…

What SA Government IT needs for improved Auditor General reports

Most businesses, enterprises and organizations still experience a large variety of issues with user data backups. The main issue, of course, is that backups are not reliable, making data recovery a tedious task (if possible at all).

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