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havoc. The warning is out that more attacks,
possibly with greater severity, are in the
digital pipeline.”
Jacobsz says being aware of your own risks
and being alert of any probable threats ‘out
there’ is critical to any strategy that is forged
with the purpose of adequately protecting
yourself. “Each and every computer has the
strength to damage reputation and cause
revenue loss. It also has the ability to morph
into a bot, strengthening the cyberattack and
helping in the effort to destruct. The severity of
any potential cyberthreat cannot be ignored,”
he warns. n
Anton Jacobsz, Managing Director at Networks Unlimited
applications becomes more critical to
the success of the business,” highlights
the report. “Attacks continue to
grow in sophistication and size, but
organisations are also evolving their
strategies to address the security of
their applications. With security budgets
rising in the wake of public attacks,
DDoS mitigation solutions, WAFs and
anti-fraud protection are among the
top app services that organisations
plan to deploy over the next 12 months.
Respondents who have a WAF and
DDoS protection solutions currently
deployed, as well as those identifying
themselves as representing cloud-
first organisations, tend to feel more
confident in their ability to withstand
application-layer attacks.”
According to the research, the complex
set of challenges faced by companies at
present encompass:
• The inability to scale infrastructure
and resources to protect against
high volume attacks without service
interruption;
• Compliance with customer
expectations and maintaining
industry/regulatory standards;
• Knowledge and visibility, that is
understanding of attacks faced and
how to respond to incidents;
• The complexity of management
explosion of applications, and
needing to stop attacks at various
stages of exploit;
• The migration to cloud services
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leading to an increased need
for protection that supports
hybrid environments; and
• As mentioned, the fact that
increased application attacks
are getting more sophisticated
as attackers seek to penetrate
and cripple websites.
Simon McCullough, Major
Channel Account Manager: sub-
Saharan Africa at F5 Networks
points out: “Consider some of
these stats: 20% of employees
would sell their company
passwords, and nearly half of
those would do so for less than
USD1,000! More than 70% of
attacks target the user identities
and applications, not servers and
networks. Yet, 90% of today’s
security budgets are still spent
on protecting everything but
user identities."
Anton Jacobsz, Managing
Director at Networks Unlimited,
value-added distributor of F5
solutions throughout Africa,
adds: “As public and private
organisations and individuals
scramble to protect themselves
following the global WannaCry
ransomware attack, the
cyberattack has highlighted the
seriousness of security threats
and that they are not singular
to only one industry or country
but spread a wide range of
F5 has put together 10 critical areas of
focus that it says will help organisations
significantly strengthen their security
programme and risk mitigation strategies.
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