InfoSecSherpa’s Africa InfoSec News Roundup for Saturday, February 19, 2022
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2 min readFeb 19, 2022
- The African Challenge: Cybersecurity Awareness on the Continent
(African Business, February 15th) - $3.5bn and growing: The huge cost of cybercrime in Africa
(Financial Mail, February 18th) - Recent developments in African data protection laws — Outlook for 2022
(JD Supra / Hogan Lovells, February 1st) - Growing digital threat to Africa’s humanitarian sector requires rapid solutions to keep cybercriminals at bay
(Daily Maverick, February 1st) - XDR simplified: why South African organisations need to adopt a ‘living’ approach to cyber security
(IT Web South Africa, February 1st) - China’s Digital Silk Road and Africa’s Technological Future
(Council on Foreign Relations, February 1st) - Acronis launches first cloud data centre in South Africa
(Gulf Business, January 31st) - Artificial intelligence creeps on to the African battlefield
(The Brookings Institution, February 8th) - Africa embraces Huawei technology despite security concerns
(DW, February 8th) - Cyber, political risks top concerns in Nigeria — Report
(Vanguard, January 25th)
