Blockchain & Food Traceability

Traceability has become a critical tool for implementing and operationalizing standards and regulations by increasing transparency across food supply chains (Blockchain & Food Traceability). Simply put, traceability is all about…

Machine Learning – The main impact areas where we can use it

Numerous businesses across the different sectors have struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been few exceptions, especially within the information technology field, that have revealed unnecessary duplication and waste.…

Small Security Teams – Five Important Security Lessons

Looking back to before the COVID-19 pandemic, a full-time work-from-home workforce was not fathomable. Security professionals would not even entertain the idea and talk of a remote workforce. It would…

Non-fungible Tokens

Non-fungible tokens (NFT) are digital assets that include a wide range of unique tangible and intangible items such as virtual real estate, sports cards, and digital sneakers.  One significant advantage…

How is blockchain transforming the education sector?

Blockchain is essentially a distributed ledger technology more popular for being the technology backing cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Blockchain technology can find widespread application in different economic sectors,…

Cyber Skills Gap, is it a lack of talent problem?

The global cybersecurity workforce gap shrank from 4 million to 3.1 million in 2020, the first time ever a year-on-year reduction has been recorded. According to data from the International…

4 Sectors Targeted from Ransomware Attacks in 2020

There was a marked increase in the number of ransomware attacks reported in 2020. No single business sector has been spared from the tentacles of malicious actors preying the cyberspace. There…

Google’s Global Outage

Google's global outage due to its services, with users reporting that they could not use Gmail, YouTube, and most of its cloud services. It was a week that Google would…

The Rise of Malicious SSL Encryption Attacks

According to research by Zscaler, malicious SSL attacks have been increased by 260% in 2020, including a rise in encrypted attacks. A 500% increase in ransomware attacks was recorded among the encrypted…

Ransomware Attacks: 5 ways of errors

Information security should be made part of the values and culture of any organization. Many organizations forget about safety, only to be jolted into action once an incident has occurred.…