Author: Nina Kovačević

Are you a Facebook user? If you are, then you can count yourself amongst a global community that includes roughly 2.2 billion other monthly active users. That’s pretty wild to think about especially when considering that is active users per month. However, an even more mind-boggling number is the amount of fake accounts the social media giant deleted in the first quarter of 2018: 583 million. Yep, more than half a billion Facebook accounts, all fake, all deleted. In the just the first quarter of this year. To put that…

Cybercrime continues to plague organizations across the world, causing immense amounts of damage and confusion. In 2018, we witnessed an alarming number of large scale data breaches, and the repercussions were both dangerous and costly. Motortech, a specialist manufacturer of parts and accessories for stationary gas engines, recognized the potential damage an attack could inflict, and strengthened their capabilities with Check Point Infinity. “It is important that cyber threats are controlled, blocked or dismissed before they reach the end-user,” says Marcus Morig, Head of Information Technology, Motortech. “We want our…

As cyber-attacks continue to evolve in scale and sophistication, the amount of internet traffic facing enterprises and data centers rises accordingly. Doubling every three years, this massive increase of encrypted traffic over SSL becomes even more of a challenge for complete security. There’s only one way to manage this – enter R80.20 Cyber Security Management. With new, innovative AI engines – dubbed Cadet, Campaign Hunting, and Huntress – R80.20 boasts triple the threat prevention accuracy, with a higher catch rate and lower false positives. R80.20’s new software acceleration engine can…

Artificial intelligence continues to proliferate and influence our lives. Speech recognition and image recognition rely on AI. The financial sector is moving to AI-based insurance risk analysis, credit scores and loan eligibility. We’re also seeing the emergence of AI-based robot lawyers and AI-based medical diagnostics and prognoses. But can artificial intelligence be used effectively to combat cyberattacks? AI-influenced cybersecurity capabilities have evolved well beyond AI washing (a derogatory term coined to describe a technology billed as AI but which in reality, as InfoWorld put it, is “an attempt to make dumb…