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Cyber heroines : Changing the future for African girls
he 2021 Tomorrow ’ s Cyber Heroines study undertaken
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Limited surveyed around 440 teachers across 14 African countries to unpack the complexities that face African girls in the technology landscape .
With Africa ’ s future reliant on its ability to adapt to Digital Transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution ( 4IR ), levelling the playing field for women has become critical .
“ We have to give girls more opportunities , inspire them to get involved in technology and the cybersecurity field and to remove the preconceived and socialised ideas that prevent women from pursuing careers in technology ,” said Anna Collard , SVP of Content Strategy and Evangelist , KnowBe4 Africa . a serious , long-term impact on women ’ s careers and futures . With cybersecurity and technology struggling to find skilled people , the market is wide open for those with training . In addition to careers , training and education in technology and cybersecurity is essential for the wellbeing of women in Africa .
The report examines the education curriculum , the challenges facing African girls and it looks at initiatives that can be implemented to shift perceptions and transform the future for the women of Africa .
A recent study by the Association for Progressive Communications underscored the reality of the gender digital divide . In Africa women have less access to Internet-based technologies than men and they are more limited in their ability to move out from under poverty .
The study found that a lack of education , limited guidance , minimal role models and societal preconceptions are having
RiskIQ ’ S 2020 Mobile Threat Landscape report finds 33 % growth in mobile apps
iskIQ , a global leader in attack
R surface management , has published its 2020 Mobile App Threat Landscape report , an analysis of the murky mobile app underworld spanning the open web and app stores around the world .
With a proactive , store-first scanning mentality , RiskIQ observes and categorises the threat landscape as a user would see it , monitoring both the well-known stores like the Apple App Store and Google Play and more than 120 secondary stores around the world . RiskIQ also leverages daily scans of nearly 2 billion resources to look for mobile apps in the wild . Every app encountered is downloaded , analysed and stored to record changes and new versions . The report gives a snapshot of 2020 ’ s mobile threat landscape and dives into emerging trends for 2021 . 2020 key findings include :
• Overall mobile apps available grew 33 %
• RiskIQ ’ s Internet Intelligence Graph catalogued 30 % more apps in 2020 but noted only 102,312 blacklisted apps , more than 67 % fewer than in 2019
• Play store dropped an impressive 60 % in 2020 . RiskIQ found that blacklisted apps have now fallen in Google Play for two consecutive years
• Despite blacklisted apps falling 67 %, blacklisted feral apps rose nearly 58 %
This hidden mobile threat landscape is a branding and consumer trust nightmare for businesses . Even though an organisation doesn ’ t own or manage a copycat app , it ’ s still part of its attack surface because the copycat app is leveraging the organisation ’ s branding and targeting its prospects , customers and employees . Security teams must detect and address them .
Extending security and IT protection outside the firewall requires mapping these billions of relationships between the Internet components belonging to every organisation , business and threat actor on earth . These include mobile apps . RiskIQ built its Internet Intelligence Graph to prepare enterprises for this reality by enabling them to discover unknowns across their attack surface and investigate threats to their organisation .
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