The 7th Annual ITWeb Security Summit will bring together key industry experts in IT security and related industries who will focus on the issue of trust, and the need to re-assess the standard approaches to IT security.

Low Tech Hacking: Street Smarts for Security Professionals

While the media focuses on grand-scale hacking, companies are losing money every day from simpler hacking techniques. This book, by Jack Wiles, Terry Gudaitis, Jennifer Jabusch, Russ Rogers and Sean Lowther, details less sophisticated hacking techniques, such as social engineering, wireless hacking, and surveillance to gain valuable data, and offers countermeasures.

With world focus turning to the development and growth potential in Africa, and South Africa seen as the gateway to Africa, the attention of the world’s cybercriminals is likely to turn to SA soon. We aren’t prepared, says information security consultancy Performanta.

Following a series of high-profile breaches, major information security vendors are conceding that there is little to stop a determined cyber criminal from breaching security and wreaking havoc. IT security needs a rethink, they say.