Arcserve
Southern
Africa tackles
ransomware
threat
Cloud uptake shifts in South
African enterprise sector
A
rcserve Southern Africa has announced
the availability of the Arcserve
Ransomware readiness assessment
which enables businesses to measure
their capabilities and chart a path to a
ransomware-free future. Byron Horn-Botha,
Arcserve Southern Africa Lead: Channel
and Partnerships, said: “Ransomware has
become one of the largest business risks
and serves as the most menacing threat
to IT organisations. It’s reached epidemic
proportions globally, with costs projected to
reach US$20 billion by 2021.”
Information security management is an
essential part of good IT governance,
particularly with respect to protecting
critical business and personal data
from ransomware. Horn-Botha says the
assessment is constructed around a
scorecard that outlines the important areas
that companies should be scrutinising within
their businesses. He said: “The scorecard
describes a five-level evolutionary path of
increasingly organised and systematically
more mature processes. For each of the
items in the ransomware-free framework,
you can assess your organisation’s maturity
score and consider your priorities. Mark the
box that best fits your company profile. The
assessment shows businesses where they
should be restricting access to common
ransomware entry points, such as personal
email accounts and social networking
websites. It also shows how web filtering
may be used at the gateway and endpoint
to block phishing attempts for users who are
tricked into clicking on a link.”
Andrew Cruise,
MD of Routed
T
he managing director of a
vendor neutral provider of cloud
infrastructure says that while there is an
increase in cloud adoption within the
enterprise, there is a shift in how these
organisations are choosing to engage.
Andrew Cruise, MD of Routed, said: “While
the RightScale State of the Cloud report
states that hybrid cloud is a dominant
enterprise strategy, locally we are seeing
the sector shifting from being ‘all-in’ with
a hyperscaler or native cloud provider to
a more measured hybrid cloud approach
with providers such as VMware.”
Byron Horn-Botha, Arcserve Southern Africa
Lead: Channel and Partnerships
www.intelligentcio.com
He said that a hybrid cloud strategy,
defined by Routed as a combination
of owned infrastructure and public
cloud, enables an organisation to
diversify spend and skills, build
resilience and carefully select
features and proficiencies depending
on where a vendor’s strength lies,
doing this without any fear of the
dreaded vendor lock-in.
“In line with this cloud-first strategy
increase among the enterprise sector,
we are seeing a need for a greater
focus on establishing cloud Centres of
Excellence. It is imperative that there
are controls, tools and best practices
available to help accelerate the use of
cloud, while also trying to mitigate any
costs or risks,” said Cruise.
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