Posts Tagged ‘South Africa’

May 16th, 2010 - 10:23 pm § in CSIRT, GRC, IT Audit, Information Security, Risk Management, e-Crime

Video – Online Banking Crime in South Africa

Craig Rosewarne  has a live discussion with Jeremy Maggs on eNews around cyber crime activity facing major banks in South Africa.[...]

May 16th, 2010 - 9:49 pm § in CSIRT, Information Security, Risk Management, e-Crime

Video – Fifa 2010 attracts cyber crime to South Africa

Craig Rosewarne, founder of the Information Security Group of Africa (www.isgafrica.org ) & senior manager, Risk Advisory, Deloitte & Touche, has a discussion on CNBC around typical cyber criminal activity that a major event attracts to a country – in this case the FIFA 2010 world cup [...]

February 24th, 2010 - 8:49 pm § in CSIRT, Information Security, Training, e-Crime

Draft SA CyberSecurity Policy released for comment

I am excited as both the chairman of the Information Security Group of Africa & as a citizen of this country, to witness the first green shoots of our government taking information security and the escalating scourge of eCrime seriously! The Department of Communications has just released a draft[...]

January 17th, 2010 - 10:24 pm § in CSIRT, Information Security, Risk Management

International CSIRT / Incident Response training in South Africa

To date South Africa does not have an established national Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT).  The consequences of this are: • Lack of awareness & local reports on incidents • Poor coordination & response times • Shortage of skilled incident response experts • A major[...]

August 19th, 2009 - 10:04 pm § in Compliance, Information Security

Privacy law reality now one step closer…

Cabinet has approved the Protection of Personal Information Bill to go before Parliament. The draft law has been nine years in the making and will have a profound impact on business, lawyers say. Yesterday, Cabinet spokesman Themba Maseko said the Bill was drafted by the South African Law Commission[...]