A cybersecurity risk assessment helps an organisation answer three important questions: What are we protecting? What could go wrong? What should we fix first? Without these answers, cybersecurity spending can easily become product-driven rather than risk-driven. A good cybersecurity risk assessment provides management with a structured view of the organisation’s technology, threats, vulnerabilities and potential […]
Read MoreAn expired SSL/TLS certificate can cause websites, APIs and applications to become inaccessible or display security warnings. SSL certificate expiry is an important issue every site owner should monitor to ensure uninterrupted and secure access. Managing one certificate manually may be straightforward. However, managing dozens or hundreds across multiple domains, servers, applications and business units […]
Read MorePPOPIA compliance is not simply about adding a privacy statement to your website. Instead, organisations need to consider how they collect, process, store, protect and ultimately dispose of personal information. To start, use this POPIA compliance checklist to work through the key steps you need to take. The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of […]
Read MoreMany businesses use the terms penetration testing and vulnerability assessment interchangeably. Understanding the differences between penetration testing vs vulnerability assessment is key to choosing the right cybersecurity approach. While both are important cybersecurity activities, they serve different purposes. A vulnerability assessment helps identify potential weaknesses. A penetration test goes further by determining whether those weaknesses […]
Read MoreOne of the first questions businesses ask when considering penetration testing is: How much does a penetration test cost in South Africa? There is no universal price because penetration testing is normally priced according to the size, complexity and type of environment being tested. Public South African pricing shows a wide market range. Prices start […]
Read MoreCybersecurity monitoring has become increasingly important as organisations operate across endpoints, cloud platforms, networks, email and remote-working environments. Many businesses are now considering the differences between SOC as a Service vs in-house SOC to determine the best approach for their security needs. That raises an important question: Should you build your own Security Operations Centre […]
Read MoreA common cybersecurity question is whether penetration testing should happen monthly, quarterly or annually. For many organisations, annual pen testing is a useful baseline – but it should not automatically be the only time testing occurs. The appropriate frequency depends on how quickly your technology environment changes and the level of cybersecurity risk your organisation […]
Read MoreWhy penetration testing is one of the highest-value investments a growing business can make in its own security and how Prima Secure helps you act on what it finds. Every business owner who has invested in cybersecurity has, at some point, asked the same question: “Are we actually protected, or does it just look that […]
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Vulnerability scanning is one of the few security controls that organisations can measure, repeat, and link directly to remediation. For CISOs, the real question is not whether to scan, but whether the vulnerability detection and scanning programme is frequent enough, deep enough and operationally useful. Prima Secure, a South African cybersecurity provider, is relevant here […]
Read MoreMoving your business to the cloud can make operations faster, more flexible and easier to scale, but embracing cloud computing can also come with its own challenges. But it can also introduce security risks and threats that are easy to overlook. Your data may now sit across Microsoft 365, cloud applications, SaaS platforms, virtual machines, […]
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