South African Information Security statistics are hard to come by. So when Craig Rosewarne recently published a South African Information Security Survey it was well recieved across the industry.
Pieter and Tony made their way across town to chat to him about the survey and his findings.
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We often talk about the internal threat, but we seldom give thought to who presents the highest risk. Symantec has released a report looking at the profile of the insider threat.
Jayson O Reiolly has moved to Symantec, and the Pubcast team went to Symantec to get the inside track on the findings.
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At last an Information Security community-driven conference is coming to Cape Town.
Initiated by Pieter Blaauw, B-Sides is a free conference aimed at providing locals with teh opportunity to both present and hear loacal research and experiences.
Furthermore, Sensepost is supporting this initiative by providing a prize for significant Information Security Research emanating from South Africa.
Pieter and Marco Slaviero discussed the objectives with Tony
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Doctor Khomotso Kganyago is the Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft South Africa.
In this wide ranging discussion he discusses the state of Information Security within Microsoft, the state of South Arican Security (including recent research on the topic), the need for greater national Information Security awareness as well as recent work Microsoft has done to close down Botnets.
Must as the Pubcast team tried, he would not discuss Windows 8.