Prof. Basie von Solms

Prof. Basie von Solms

Speaker

Prof SH (Basie) von Solms
Research Professor in Cyber Security in the Centre for Cyber Security
Associate Director: Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre (GCSCC), University of Oxford

Prof SH (Basie) von Solms is Research Professor in Cyber Security in the Centre for Cyber Security at the University of Johannesburg as well as an Associate Director of the Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre (GCSCC) of the University of Oxford in the UK. He is also a member of the Technical Boards of the GCSCC and the Cybersecurity Capacity Centre of South Africa (C3SA).

Basie specialises in research and consultancy in the area of Information and Cyber Security, Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, Cyber Crime and other related cyber aspects. He has written and presented more than 150 papers regarding this field - most of which have been presented at international research conferences and/or published in international subject journals.

Presentation:
Cybersecurity Governance is everybody's responsibility |  Day Three

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This session's ultimate objective is to help end users become cyber-risk aware in order to be cybercrime fighters (a ‘Human Firewall’) that help protect them and their enterprises on the front line of cyber crime.

In simple terms Cybersecurity Governance is the oversight of all activities required to ensure an institution’s operations in Cyberspace are secure, safe, resilient and trustworthy. While ultimate responsibility resides at the top of organisations with their Board or Council, effective implementation is determined by the actions of users at all levels throughout the enterprise. The presentation will focus on these ‘lower’ levels of Cybersecurity Governance, and will include aspects such as :

  • Cybercrime, Cyber risks and the attack methods and techniques of cybercriminals,
  • Ransomware attacks with examples (Transnet, TransUnion etc),
  • Phishing attacks, Social Engineering attacks and more.

The session will also cover legal aspects to be aware of such as the POPI and Cybercrime Acts