NEWS
South Atlantic Cable System makes landfall
on Brazilian coast
T
elecommunuications multinational
Angola Cables has reported that the
South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) has made
landfall at Fortaleza on the Brazilian coast.
Its arrival is an important strategic milestone
for the company, Angola and Africa because
it will be the first direct link between the
Americas and the African continent, offering
faster routing with higher capacity.
SACS is expected to be fully operational
later this year, with the undersea cable
being one of the most advanced submarine
telecommunications systems.
“Once SACS has been fully commissioned,
we will see a significant improvement in
communications and content sharing between
Angola, African countries and the Americas,”
said Angola Cables’ CEO António Nunes.
“Investments made by Angola Cables and
its partners in underwater cable systems,
such as the West African Cable System
“With SACS, the delay in transporting digital
content, known as latency, will be reduced
five-fold, from the current 350 thousandths
of a second to just over 60 thousandths of
a second. It is also re-orienting worldwide
Internet traffic and is effectively positioning
Angola as a telecommunications hub in sub-
Saharan Africa.”
Celebrating the milestone, from left:
Moroni Torgan, Deputy Mayor of Fortaleza;
Manuel Homem, Angolan Secretary of
State for Information and Technology;
António Nunes, CEO of Angola Cables;
Inácio Arruda, Secretary of Science,
Technology and Higher Education of
Ceará; Camilo Santana, Governor of Ceará;
and César Ribeiro, Secretary of Economic
Development of Ceará
(WACS) and Monet – connecting North
and South America – combined with other
investments in terrestrial infrastructure
such as data centres, is opening up global
communications networks.
The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS)
between Africa and South America makes
landfall at Fortaleza on the Brazilian coast
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RSA issues security warning about need
for early detection
G
lobal cybersecurity company RSA has
highlighted the importance of early
detection and a rapid response in combating
a targeted attack on your network.
Experts accept the strong possibility that
criminals will be able to enter their network
at any point, meaning that the issue
becomes less about being able to keep
them out and more about detecting them
and taking remedial action as soon as their
presence is discovered.
“The report from RSA Incident Response
Services notes that, once detected, rapid
response is needed to mitigate the
potential damage and prevent them from
achieving their objectives,” said Anton
Jacobsz, managing director at Networks
Unlimited, which distributes RSA products
and solutions in Africa.
“RSA’s Advanced Cyber Defense (ACD)
services for incident response enable
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organisations to prepare for security
incidents without having to accept the
inevitability of loss.”
The report outlines the comprehensive
forensic analysis framework in the
RSA approach to threat response and
mitigation, noting that the response
process takes into consideration data
from multiple sources, including in-house
systems, open source research, RSA Live
threat intelligence and the customer’s
threat intelligence sources.
The approach taken includes network
analysis using host forensics, harvesting
threat intelligence and malware analysis,
as follows:
• Network analysis: Data from packets and
logs collected by RSA NetWitness is used to
identify suspicious or risky communications
• Host forensics: Executables, files and
libraries are used to identify unauthorised
services and processes deployed by the
attacker and running on end points
• Threat intelligence: Research is
conducted to gain insights about the
attack infrastructure, tools and techniques,
which is particularly helpful in gaining
insight about threat actors that are
persistently targeting the organisation
• Malware analysis: Malware tends to be
relatively small in terms of file size, which
helps the attackers to avoid detection.
Malware analysis allows an incident
response team to develop blocking
techniques and make the organisation
more resilient
“Attackers do leave clues to their presence
and analytic intelligence, as offered by RSA,
is key in being able to offer early detection
and rapid response,” added Jacobsz.
“On-going analysis and threat intelligence
further allows an organisation to bolster its
defences into the future.”
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