By Simeon Tassev, managing director and QSA at Galix Networking

Edited by: Nhlanhla Skosana

               :Editorial Intern 

The dissipating cybersecurity: What’s in store for organisations?

Cyber security is no longer providing organisations with security as ought to be. The continued rise in the emergence of Ransom ware as a Service makes the malware accessible to even those with fewer skills to tackle the encrypted data.

Cyber attacks are not only experienced by organisations in South Africa but are a global issue. As threats continue to develop and evolve, organisations are being put in risk and also this may cause severe reputational damage to the organisation. Gartner has recently revealed their IT predictions, many of which are global predictions:

ü  The increasing adoption of cloud services and looming promise of hyper scale cloud environments in South Africa will place a strong focus on cloud security.

ü  Key technology trends such as the Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, advanced biometrics and Chabot will feature more prominently in the development of cyber security tools and solutions.

ü  Gartner predicts that by 2020,IoT technology will be in 95% of electronics for new product designs.

ü  Data protection tools will be expensive.

However, there are ways in which these organisations could either prevent or recover from these cyber threats.

ü  It could work in the organisations’ favour if they can implement new ways of structuring their cloud environment for the security of these organisations.

ü  They should also learn not store their information on one cloud but rather back it up and keep some of the backed-up data offline.

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