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Powerful New Cyber Security Centre Offers Next Generation Security Solution Today

Johannesburg, Tuesday 7th February, 2017: Following months of rigorous testing J2 Software has announced the launch of its Cyber Security Centre (CSC) which is now commercially available to support businesses driving to improve information security and aid governance.

John Mc Loughlin, MD, J2 Software says the CSC was launched in response to growing calls for better security.  “It became apparent that the traditional way of doing things is simply no longer working. Breaches are increasing; losses are growing with no apparent end in sight. Cyber-criminal networks are innovating on a daily basis and traditional security is still playing by the same rules.”

Mc Loughlin highlights the number of businesses today affected by cyber-crime. “One cannot talk to a business today that has not been affected in one way or another by the scourge of cyber-crime.  This ranges from malicious or uninformed insiders through to meticulously planned external attacks targeting vital infrastructure and the growing number of ransomware variants seen each day,” he says.

Research by information specialists, J2 Software, shows that employees pose one of the biggest threats to the security of corporate data – a threat that is largely unrecognised by South African boards. The launch of the King IV Report on Corporate Governance by the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa on 1 November, and the imminent announcement of the effective date in terms of the Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act by the newly appointed Regulator, provide a wake-up call for South African organisations, says John McLoughlin, MD of J2 Software.

“Data is now recognised as the most valuable asset a company owns, and it is the target of criminal syndicates. PoPI and similar legislation elsewhere in the world has been devised to force companies to take responsibility for protecting the sensitive personal data they store on their systems. Codes like the King Code have long identified that a company’s data is the fuel on which it runs, and have made boards responsible for ensuring it is protected,” he explains. “But, all too often the threat is conceptualised as external, and the solution as purely technological. What they fail to recognise and be accountable for is that their employees represent an equally serious security risk.”

Research by information security specialists J2 Software shows that employees pose one of the biggest threats to the security of corporate data—a threat that is largely unrecognised by South African boards. The launch of the King IV Report on Corporate Governance^TM by the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa on 1 November, and the imminent announcement of the effective date in terms of the Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act by the newly appointed Regulator, provide a wake-up call for South African organisations, says John Mc Loughlin, MD of J2 Software.

“Data is now recognised as the most valuable asset a company owns, and it is the target of criminal syndicates. PoPI and similar legislation elsewhere in the world has been devised to force companies to take responsibility for protecting the sensitive personal data they store on their systems. Codes like the King Code have long identified that a company’s data is the fuel on which it runs, and have made boards responsible for ensuring it is protected,” he explains. “But, all too often the threat is conceptualised as external, and the solution as purely technological. What they fail to recognise and be accountable for is that their employees represent an equally serious security risk.”