Intelligent CISO Issue 86 | Page 75

SECURE horizons

By Jess Abell, our Chief Content Officer
In this column, we’ ll be discussing key issues for CISOs and their teams – from AI to wellbeing and from Zero Trust to communication. If you’ d like to get in touch, email jess @ lynchpinmedia. com
control rooms to life, managing alerts from multiple disparate systems and offering peace of mind.
Vumacam’ s purpose is to foster collaboration between the private and public sector through technology to keep ahead of crime by constantly investing in and growing its infrastructure and platform to provide lifesaving and actionable intelligence in real time.
Intelligent Secure Digital Transformation Partner – Forensic Sciences Institute
This vendor is a trusted partner in securing Digital Transformation initiatives, providing tailor-made, agile security strategies that protect organisations from evolving digital threats. They have a proven track record of impactful results which positions them as a deserving recipient of this award.
Intelligent Training and Awareness Initiative – Orange Cyberdefense
This award honours a business that has designed and delivered an impactful training programme to enhance organisational cybersecurity awareness and resilience.
Orange Cyberdefense delivers uniquely immersive and practical cybersecurity training grounded in real-world experience.
Their global success enables them to offer these high-quality courses in South Africa at reduced prices, contributing to local skill development. This combination of cutting-edge methodology, real-world relevance, global recognition, and positive impact makes their training exceptional and a clear winner.
Intelligent Network Security Implementation of the Year – Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks was recognised for consistently implementing innovation in security through the integration of Artificial Intelligence, automation and cloud-native technologies into its solutions.
There is a lack of urgency and importance being placed upon cyberdefence across Africa.
This company empowers regional security teams with proactive threat detection and autonomous response capabilities, drastically reducing incident response times, while its SASE platform redefines secure connectivity for the hybrid workforce, merging networking and security into a single cloud-delivered service.
Intelligent Cloud Security Implementation of the Year – Paygilant
Paygilant provides groundbreaking fraud prevention technology, which seamlessly balances security and user experience. The company’ s cloud-based architecture ensures scalability with minimal infrastructure requirements, reducing the carbon footprint associated with traditional fraud prevention systems.
It was a pleasure to honour the inspirational individuals at these organisations who are all helping to play a part in the collective security of South Africa.
In a time where the security landscape is dominated by news of AI innovation and technology developments – which are absolutely crucial in levelling the playing field against sophisticated, malicious attackers – it’ s important to remember the humans at the heart of it all. We’ ll continue to do so through Intelligent CISO and our CXO Cyber Connections platform, which you can join( for free) here.
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