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according to the council for scientific
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and Industrial Research South Africa is
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the number one target for cyber
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criminals on the prow for information
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and money this is driven by a lack of
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legislation investment digital literacy
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and expertise to properly detect and
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deal with the threats we are ill
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prepared because organizations don't do
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much sometimes to train their people we
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don't do much to put the necessary
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controls and that is why it's important
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for us to continuously talk about it so
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that we are able to to make cyber
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security a daily thing the transition to
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remote working is heightening the risk a
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report released by the council for
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scientific and Industrial Research
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indicates that companies Alone face 150
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data breaches a month each transgression
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costs around $3 million if there's no
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money to invest in some of these fields
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becomes a problem so we need to train
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our police we need to train our citizens
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we need to train our government
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officials we need to train everybody
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even our children because the skill is
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is limited right and and and it's
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limited because from the school ground
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up we don't teach this and I think
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that's where we need to start government
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institutions that hold the keys to
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valuable public and state information
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and critical infrastructure are not
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spared either whenever a system is um
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sabotaged or interfered with it it it it
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can it can affect the entire
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organizations cuz we all depend on
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technology that would mean that you're
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not able to operate imagine the reput
1:30
ational damage that is there so you
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would find that many other organizations
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now don't want to partner with that
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specific organizations based on a breach
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that occurred according to Interpol
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South Africa encountered 230 million
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cyber threats in 2022 most of these
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originate through emails fishing
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investment and job scams the increasing
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number of online attacks has prompted
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calls for the finalization of the Cyber
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Crimes Act to provide a layer of
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protection for the country gilar CTN
