A trend that’s increasingly becoming clear is that SA is an attractive testbed for cyber attacks internationally. ITWebSS2023 CyberSecurity
A trend that is increasingly becoming clear is that SA is an appealing testbed for cyber attacks internationally, says Christopher MacRoberts, legal director atThis, notes MacRoberts, is mainly driven by the country’s “fairly” sophisticated private sector, and strong banking, fintech and services sectors.
“There is certainly a huge role that the private sector can play in improving SA’s cyber resilience and being able to meet these threats. We’re certainly not in a safe harbour in South Africa; we’re subject to all of those forces,” he noted. “I can tell you with absolute certainty that the risks we are experiencing in SA, the kind of attacks that South African companies are being subjected to, are as sophisticated and as bad as anything that is going on anywhere in the world.
“Cyber security risks these days are multi-faceted. We’ve got a lot of blind spot issues in the country, and one of them is the lack of coordination between the private and public sectors. The private sector may think they are secure, but if government is not secure, ultimately there will be bystanders. Vice-versa, if government thinks they are secure but the private sector is not, then we have a challenge.
Hlabathi indicated ransomware remains a “real” headache that everyone faces. “We’re seeing this in the state as well.”
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