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to it and tasks that have to be executed
daily. You can have the most modernised
platform, but if you’ve got a server sitting in
the corner that you don’t patch, you can get
through the network quite easily. We have a
very strong stance on that, and from a PCI
perspective, it addresses a number of security
requirements. Even the devices that we look
at implementing from an infrastructure
perspective are PCI compliant, so it meets all
those requirements.
What do you see as some of the
biggest cyber threats facing Africa?
We always ask ourselves if we’re ready from
a cybersecurity perspective. You’ve got to
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remember though that people want data.
They want access to it, and if it’s financial
data, then it’s even better. Those are the
common threats, but it’s not just in South
Africa, it’s all over the world. If you look at
where some of the security threats emanate
from, it’s not from Africa, it’s from the US,
the UK or Russia.
But what happens is that, if you don’t have
the security measures in place, you’re at risk.
What it boils down to is people management
and effective management of resources. It’s
easy to get access to your systems, so as an
organisation, it was critical that we had a
security operation centre, which monitors all
of our logs and it works exceptionally well. n
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