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The face in the machine
3+ week, 2+ day ago (868+ words) On 15 July 2026, a law came into force in China that I believe deserves attention. The Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services regulate the chatbots and virtual companions that hundreds of millions of people now speak to…...
Built for resilience
3+ week, 5+ day ago (455+ words) That transformation came through a strategic partnership with NEC XON and the adoption of Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR (Extended Detection and Response). The unified, AI-powered platform is designed to modernise cyber security across endpoint, network and cloud. The journey…...
Cause of breach on SA’s supercomputer revealed
2+ week, 6+ day ago (602+ words) The cyber security breach on South Africa’s Lengau supercomputer was caused by “vulnerabilities associated with the legacy high-performance computing system”. This is based on insights contained in a written Parliamentary reply by the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI)…...
Rubrik unveils Agent Identity to secure agentic actions in real-time
3+ week, 3+ day ago (23+ words) Rubrik Agent Identity lets enterprises decide who can do what with agents and enforces it per tool call, at the moment of action....
Fortinet expands FortiEndpoint with new capabilities for the AI era
2+ week, 4+ day ago (282+ words) These capabilities help define Fortinet’s approach to endpoint security for the AI era, advanced through three key areas of innovation: FortiEndpoint provides centralised visibility and control over sanctioned and unsanctioned AI application and agent usage across endpoints, including installed AI…...
Plugging the data leak – a blueprint for deploying safe, POPIA-compliant enterprise AI agents
2+ week, 4+ day ago (575+ words) South African enterprises are accelerating their adoption of autonomous AI agents, but many underestimate the fundamental risk that sits beneath these systems – unstructured, ungoverned and often forgotten data. For CISOs and CIOs, this ‘dark data’ represents one of the most…...
Implats pushes AI as it addresses cyber breach
1+ week, 3+ day ago (295+ words) Implats is pushing ahead with generative AI, while addressing a cyber breach that remains on the platinum miner’s risk agenda....
Fireside chat: Who’s guarding your front line? Meet the minds behind Armata Cyber Security
3+ week, 5+ day ago (486+ words) Question: You've spent 17 years in the cyber security industry, both in South Africa and across Africa and the UK. This was as a CISO, then building and running cyber security businesses, before being brought in to lead Armata Cyber Security....
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026: Wolfpack helps organisations build their human firewalls
3+ week, 4+ day ago (499+ words) As cyber criminals increasingly target people rather than technology, Wolfpack Information Risk is encouraging organisations to rethink how they approach Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) this October. Rather than treating awareness as an annual compliance exercise, Wolfpack's "Build Your Human Firewall…...
Cyber security has entered a new category: Why AI-era threats require a defence system, not more tools
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (1194+ words) As artificial intelligence reshapes the speed and sophistication of cyber attacks, organisations are being forced to rethink a long-standing approach to cyber security: adding another tool every time a new threat emerges. Cyber Insight says the next phase of cyber…...