The Jacksonville Jaguars take the field prior to kickoff against the Dallas Cowboys at Wembley Stadium in London, Nov. 9, 2014. Getty Images As the NFL season begins, a new kind of defensive strategy is taking shape: Stopping drone disruptions. Last month, the Jacksonville Jaguars became the first NFL team to publicly announce an agreement...Read More
The defining cybersecurity challenge of the AI era is not intelligence, but autonomy. As African organisations embrace agentic AI, assumptions that have shaped security strategies for decades are beginning to break down. Security teams have traditionally defended against attacks powered by human decision-making and speed. But AI agents can reason, adapt and act independently. In...Read More
Story audio is generated using AI Six security guards employed by Inqolonqolo Security Protection are fighting to recover more than R27,000 in alleged unpaid wages after formal legal complaints exposed widespread underpayments, unfair dismissals, and non-compliance with sector regulations. The workers, represented by BM Mazibuko Attorneys, wrote to the company demanding accountability over alleged contract...Read More
KAMPALA — Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) Director General Fred Bamwesigye has issued a stark warning to PearlSky, saying the entity could be kicked out of Entebbe International Airport over what he described as illegal operations. Bamwesigye said UCAA is investigating PearlSky after complaints were raised over its activities at the airport and allegations that...Read More
A small security business launched in 2020 has grown into a Long Island technology company with more than 1,500 installations to its name. SecureTech Systems, co-founded by Jawad Khalfan, was recently recognised as the 2026 Next-Gen Entrepreneur of the Year by the New York Small Business Development Centers (New York SBDC). The award was announced...Read More
Gun Free South Africa (GFSA) says that the presence of a firearm makes incidents of violence more lethal and retaliation easier, and is calling for the police to establish where the guns and ammunition used in crime come from. Firearms in the hands of criminals have led to several murders in the country, most recently...Read More
Egypt’s Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Alaa Farouk, said Egypt and Uzbekistan have strong historic ties and that political leadership has worked to expand economic and agricultural co-operation and promote investment opportunities to support sustainable food security. Farouk made the remarks during a meeting on Friday with a high-level Uzbek government delegation to discuss...Read More
A 90-day period between hiring and onboarding is creating a blind spot in enterprise identity security, according to HYPR’s State of HR Identity Fraud Detection report. “Adversaries no longer need to breach a network when they can pass a remote interview and receive authentic credentials directly from IT,” said Bojan Simic, CEO of HYPR. “Human...Read More
S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the smart contract security firm whose open-source libraries and audits have underpinned an estimated $37 trillion in onchain value transfers since 2015, according to a joint announcement from OpenZeppelin on Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the deal remains subject to customary closing conditions. OpenZeppelin has completed...Read More
[Photo: Reve AI] South Korean companies are accelerating moves into security-as-a-service (SECaaS, Security-as-a-Service), offering security solutions as platforms based on software-as-a-service (SaaS). In the South Korean market, on-premises security has held a larger share than SaaS, leading security companies to focus their business more on on-premises than SECaaS. But the mood has changed. With cloud...Read More
