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AGILITY IS VITAL TO A CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY

While so much has changed over the past 10 years as it pertains to security, South Africa and the world is still reacting to the threat landscape that opened up even further with Covid-19 and lockdown.

25 April 2021

According to Peter Margaris, Skybox Security senior director of product marketing, network defenders have to remain responsive.“We have to be mindful of the risk that people will become complacent and it is puzzling to think that organisations can be overconfident when we continue to see vulnerabilities being exploited and ransomware growing,” he stresses.

“New samples of ransomware soared 106% overall in 2020, with medium level vulnerabilities being exploited. Vulnerabilities are expanding across multiple operating systems, software and device types. Trojans were up 128% in 2020, with banking Trojans and remote access Trojans increasing almost identically to ransomware.”

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