Africa-focused network and telecommunications group Liquid Telecom has launched a cybersecurity unit, which provides end-to-end managed services for digital security and is designed to protect customers’ digitally transformed businesses including networks, people and systems.
Liquid Telecom CEO Nic Rudnick says the new unit has brought together specialist companies as partners to protect clients, users and networks and to keep the total environment of clients safe against cybercrime.
Some of the challenges facing businesses when trying to manage their cybersecurity include complexity, as there are more applications (apps) to be managed and more apps deployed by staff. There is also increased complexity of threats and attack, and more attack surfaces, owing to the need for remote access, which also increased during the Covid-19-related lockdown, besides other challenges.
“On average, about 10% of apps used in businesses are implemented by the information technology (IT) department, 70% by business departments and 20% by employees. We do not want to prevent departments and employees from using apps, but want to make these apps visible to IT so that they can be…
