How to protect yourself in the SA Cyber Security and Compliance Landscape

Data from Atlas VPN reveals that data leaks reached an all-time high in the first half of 2020, with over 27 billion records put at risk. Compared to the same period last year, the number of leaked records through June 30th grew nearly sixfold (by 492%). And as we’ve seen recently with the Experian breach and the Momentum hack, the cyber threats we face as businesses are ever present. The data breach at Experian, one of SA’s largest credit bureaus, will probably go down in history as the country’s largest and a self-created blunder. Experian accidentally engineered the data breach when it willingly handed over personal details belonging to as many as 24-million consumers and nearly 800,000 businesses to an individual that it now describes as a “fraudster”.
Not surprising that Warren Buffet recently listed cyber security as his top risk to business. Colin Erasmus, Modern Workplace Business Group Lead at Microsoft , evening Colin talks to Michael Avery about why we aren’t getting better at preventing them?