Mastercard has partnered with Nigerian digital payment startup NowNow to help SMEs reduce the risk of cyberattacks
Security
Ministry of Finance prioritises systems security
The Ministry of Finance and Development Planning has launched a 72-hour solutions development event, where developers, programmers, and sector practitioners in the sub-Saharan Africa region were invited to register and produce an integrated solution that will allow users to authenticate transactions and manage documents in the integrated financial management information system (IFMIS)
Operation across Africa identifies cyber-criminals and at-risk online infrastructure
Law enforcement officials from 27 INTERPOL countries joined forces in the Africa Cyber Surge Operation to counter cybercrime across the continent
Hytera and KwaZulu Natal Police Service rollout digital call handling system
Hytera Communications has announced that the municipality of Ray Nkonyeni in the KwaZulu Natal province of South Africa is now using its digital call handling system for the reporting and recording of crime
Kaspersky patents technology to counter cyberattacks against linked electronic devices
Kaspersky’s latest invention is intended for logically linking various electronic devices into a single network around the account of the owner and identifying similarities between device configurations