EDITOR ’ S NOTE
Welcome to the latest edition of Intelligent CIO Africa . A recent Threat Intelligence Report from Netscout Systems , revealed that there was a record-setting 10,089,687 Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks observed during 2020 . The report found that cybercriminals exploited vulnerabilities exposed by massive Internet usage shifts since many users were no longer protected by enterprise-grade security . According to the report , attackers paid particular attention to vital pandemic industries such as e-commerce , streaming services , online learning and healthcare generating a 20 % yearover-year increase in attack frequency over 2019 plus a 22 % increase in the last six months of 2020 .
In this regard , we continue to cover articles in this edition of the magazine addressing the issue of security and how organisations across Africa can overcome challenges and improve their security posture .
Gracing the cover of this month ’ s edition is Samuel Dakurah , Head , Technology and Business Systems Support Division , Republic Bank Ghana , who tells us how the Accra headquartered bank recently enhanced customer satisfaction by reducing system downtime to zero after it implemented Commvault Complete Data Protection solution .
Among the many insights , Dakurah shares that : “ Commvault has given us a 360 view of our data protection readiness . Now I get a daily report in my mail with the insight about all the backups and recovery status without waiting for that to be reported to me . This is something that we couldn ’ t do before . Commvault Complete Data Protection allowed us to integrate with our existing systems and backup everything in one platform .” You can read more by turning to page 50 .
Elsewhere in the magazine , we look at the data centre infrastructure space and how CIOs on the continent can succeed and optimise their operations . You will find this feature on page 34 .
As usual , we have all your favourite features , opinion , insight pieces and analysis articles from the African continent . You can also read daily news updates on our website at www . intelligentcio . com / africa /.
And kindly , don ’ t forget if you would like to get in touch please email me at manda @ lynchpinmedia . co . uk .
Once again , I would also like to wish you a great month ahead . Enjoy the read !
“ Commvault Complete Data Protection allowed us to integrate with our existing systems and back up everything in one platform . This actually saved us US $ 375,000 in CAPEX over one year ,” says Dakurah .
Manda Banda Editor
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