Tayla du Toit, Author at BUI

SA’s POPI Act, the EU’s GDPR and your business

South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation have widespread implications for businesses. Are you prepared? Data privacy and data security are firmly in the spotlight after headline-making incidents around the globe in 2018.. On June 14, Liberty Holdings was targeted by cybercriminals, who breached the group’s IT […]

2018 Palo Alto NSS Advanced Endpoint Protection

100% Exploits and Evasions Blocked and Zero False Positives Palo Alto Networks are bursting with excitement with the latest NSS Labs testing results and recommendation for Advanced Endpoint Protection. They are in the top right hand corner, with “100% Exploits and Evasions Blocked and Zero False Positives”. Lowest TCO of all AV vendors tested… A […]

BUI And Living Tech

About the integration So what’s the story BUI and Living Tech are taking the next step in our integration. The journey started in March 2014 and over the years we have integrated back office operations, finance and relocated to a single, larger BUI office in the Cape Town foreshore. Our next step is to broaden […]

Did I Just Socially Engineer My Own Identity Theft?

Social engineering is the use of deception to get people to divulge confidential information. On an individual scale, it can be something as simple as disclosing the personal identification number for your bank card, enabling someone to illegally access your funds. On a corporate scale, it can entail the leaking of thousands of people’s confidential […]

Ransomware: Are You The Problem?

Businesses around the world were brought to a standstill in mid-May by the WannaCry ransomware attack. But were the affected organisations indeed victims of the ransomware, or of their own inefficiencies? Ryan Roseveare, MD at BUI, believes the latter. He says, “IT and security professionals at affected companies have to ask themselves some tough questions. […]