Pedro Maia, MD, Intdev Internet Technologies
Cyber crime is possibly the greatest threat the modern, interconnected world faces. As the challenges in this space increase, organisations are seeking new methods to overcome these.
The modern world we live in today is one that is a distributed, interconnected and disrupted environment. What this essentially means is that businesses can no longer really define where the organisation begins and where it ends.
Christo Boshoff, a cyber security executive at LawTrust, points out that virtually all enterprises today are electronically linked to third-party workers, outsourcers, service providers and contractors, to name a few, and anyone of these could be a cyber security threat.
“The boundaries of the modern organisation are vague because most businesses are more digital than bricks and mortar anymore,” he told delegates at a recent risk management seminar, sponsored by governance, risk and compliance (GRC) specialist Intdev Internet Technologies, along with Unisa’s Department of Finance, Risk Management & Banking and the Institute of Risk Management SA.
“Cyber crime falls within the…
