Articles & Insights
Expert perspectives on cybersecurity from the CRS team — covering threat detection, compliance, vulnerability management, and more for African businesses.
ISO 27001 Compliance: A Management Standard, Not Just Tech
Discover why ISO 27001 Compliance Readiness is crucial for African businesses. CEO Dylan Nel explains how CRS empowers strategic information security management.
Dylan Nel
Chief Executive Officer
90% of Breaches Start with Credentials: How a Joint Vectra + Flare Offering Bolsters your Defences
Discover how Cyber Retaliator Solutions, with Vectra AI & Flare.io, delivers an outside-in, inside-out defence. Detect and stop credential-based attacks effectively. Learn more now.
Tate Tichiwangana
Head Security Engineer
Strobes Security: Continuous AI Pen Testing for Africa
Strobes Security redefines AI penetration testing for African enterprises. Achieve continuous security assurance, deep vulnerability analysis, and unified risk management. Keep pace with modern threats.
Ben Botha
Technical Account Specialist
Flare: Advanced Credential Intelligence for African Businesses
Uncover critical credential intelligence with Flare by CRS. Go beyond traditional dark web monitoring to actively stop attacks before they impact your African business. Discover true threat exposure management.
Drystan Govender
Chief Technology Officer
Mastering Your External Attack Surface!
Mastering Cybersecurity with Strobes: A Modern Approach by Cyber Retaliator Solutions You can’t fix what you can’t see. In today’s rapidly evolving digital world, cybersecurity has become more than just an IT concern—it is a core business priority.
Ben Botha
Technical Account Specialist
Flare: Your Cybersecurity Spotlight in the Dark Web
Cybersecurity today feels like trying to plug leaks in a sinking ship. Every time you patch one hole, three more spring open.
Drystan Govender
Chief Technology Officer
Introducing BlueFlag: Securing the Software Development Lifecycle Through Identity Intelligence
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organisations are investing heavily in tools, automation, and cloud‑native development workflows. Yet, despite these advancements, one of the most critical and overlooked vulnerabilities continues to threaten the software supply chain: developer identit
Nkazi Zulu
Technical Account Specialist
Stop Playing Defense! It's Time to FIGHT BACK Against Cyber Threats! 👊
Standss integrates directly with your Outlook. That's right, it's not some clunky, complicated software you need a PhD to operate. It's right there, where you already are, keeping you protected without getting in your way. It's like having a bodyguard for your emails! This seamless integration makes Standss incredibly easy to use and ensures that you're always protected, even when you're just checking your email.
Teddy Mkhabela
Technical Account Specialist
Level Up Your IT Career: Ditch the Jargon, Grab the CompTIA Cert!
Ever feel like the IT world is speaking a language you don
Kashiefa Sheik
Operations Manager
Knowing Your Company's Resilience to Cyber Attacks Has Never Been Easier: Dive into the World of Streamlined Cybersecurity with Telivy!
In today's hyper-connected digital landscape, cybersecurity isn't just a good idea, it's a fundamental necessity. Think of your company's digital infrastructure as a bustling city – data flowing like traffic, systems humming like power plants, and employees acting as the city's vibrant population.
Mtha Ngcakani
Principal Cybersecurity Specialist – VAPT
Team CRS 5-Year Milestone Celebration! Hulle Weet Nie Wat Ons Weet Nie!!!
At Cyber Retaliator Solutions, we are incredibly grateful all of our valued partners, customers and vendors for joining Team CRS at the CRS 5-Year Milestone Celebration at the Indaba Hotel. The participation and interaction with our team made the day truly special.
Kashiefa Sheik
Operations Manager
Why IBM Training?
The IBM Global Training Provider (GTP) model offers a wide range of training courses to assist you to develop all the skills required for your role, your career and to achieve your certifications. Through the model, offered by CRS through Arrow ECS, trusted GTP of IBM, you are able to complete 600+ courses, covering the various IBM Solution Offerings. The IBM Course Range offers a wide variety of courses, in varying modalities all varying in difficulty levels. The total number of days a course is set to run fluctuates depending on the difficulty level as well as the complexity of the course.
Dylan Nel
Chief Executive Officer
The Inevitable Evolution of AI within Cyber Security
With the adoption of Computers came inherent risk when malicious actors took the playful malware that once was, and started turning it into malicious viruses, worms and various other destructive malware that we see today – crippling businesses and placing massive strain on Information Systems across
Drystan Govender
Chief Technology Officer
The Crucial Role of Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) in Modern Cyber Security
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses worldwide are grappling with an escalating array of Cyber Threats that pose significant risks to their Data, Operations, and Reputation. Among the arsenal of available Cyber Security Techniques, Cyber Retaliator Solutions offers Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) as a Proactive and Invaluable Approach. This article delves into the critical importance of VAPT as an essential component of Cyber Security, shedding light on its practicality and usefulness in safeguarding Digital Assets.
Mtha Ngcakani
Principal Cybersecurity Specialist – VAPT
Unveiling the Layers: The Security Onion Model - A Comprehensive Approach to Cybersecurity
When looking at security, especially as a novice, it is easy to be overwhelmed by the depth and the breadth of all the tools at your disposal. Often, it is difficult to map out what you require, in a logical manner, that addresses your concerns as well as offers comfort in the fact that you are awar
Teddy Mkhabela
Technical Account Specialist
Voice AI Technology: A New Frontier for Social Engineering Attacks
Social Engineering Attacks remain a prevalent threat, and attackers constantly evolve and upgrade their tactics to stay ahead of the defenses. With the rise of artificial intelligence, malicious attackers are harnessing more of their abilities to generate next-generation social engineering attacks.
Mtha Ngcakani
Principal Cybersecurity Specialist – VAPT
The Synergy of IT and Security Teams in Vulnerability and Patch Management
We live in a world where cybersecurity threats are evolving faster than humans are able to detect and respond to threats. A main contributor to this, is most definitely the use of AI for new forms of malware and different iterations of previous attacks.
Drystan Govender
Chief Technology Officer
The Evolving IT Training Industry in South Africa: Balancing Viability and Impact
The IT training industry has experienced rapid growth globally, with South Africa emerging as a prominent player in recent years. As the industry evolves, it is essential to examine the South African market in comparison to the rest of the continent and the world.
Ralph de Bruijn
Head of Training Center Operations
The Importance of Investing in Cybersecurity Solutions in the Digital Age.
Businesses face a wide range of Cyber Dangers in the modern Digital World that could harm their operations, reputation, and also their financial stability. The rise in Cyber Crime has made Cybersecurity one of the most important aspects of any organization
Tate Tichiwangana
Head Security Engineer
Using SUSE’s Capabilities for Digital Transformation and the Importance of Training during the Process.
Digital Transformation has become a buzzword in the business world in recent years, as companies have recognised the need to adapt to an increasingly digital landscape in order to stay competitive. SUSE is a leading provider of Enterprise-Grade Linux Software and Solutions that can assist organisati
Ralph de Bruijn
Head of Training Center Operations
Encryption At Its Finest
In today's security environment, with a wide variety of ever-changing threats, tools such as encryption are critical components of Cyber Security. Protecting organisations from Cyber-Attacks are made possible with the help of Cyber Security Solutions such as BeachheadSecure. Moreover, by enabling IT Departments to enforce policies that secure, monitor, and control end-user mobile devices, employing security software such as Mobile Device Security (MDS) further enables organisations to defend their cyberspace. This includes USB storage devices as well as smartphones, tablets, and computers.
Teddy Mkhabela
Technical Account Specialist
Examining the impact of an adept and novel threat to securing endpoints
It is no news that in recent times, cyber threats have rapidly emerged geometrically from human-based to an autonomous and intelligent event. Intelligent-based machine models have become the order of the day amongst cyber criminals which is used to learn the defence strategy of computation framework
Drystan Govender
Chief Technology Officer
Managing Vulnerabilities With a Tool From the Future
How does your organisation manage vulnerabilities? Many organisations seem to rely on security teams as "firefighters" against the ever growing, impactful issues of malware and organisational digital attack. The unfortunate cause of this is the lack of maturity in many organisations to deal with kno
Drystan Govender
Chief Technology Officer
Why is STEM so important in South Africa right now?
Amid the most pressing challenges facing our world today is closing the STEM skills gap, which holds back technological growth and advancement. You might find yourself asking what STEM is and why does it matter to me in the Information Technology space but let us first look at what STEM stands for.
Ralph de Bruijn
Head of Training Center Operations
The Importance of Data Security
Working into almost a year of having the POPI Act instated throughout South Africa – we look at how organisations are handling data differently – more so, are organisations handling data differently? Personal information or Personal Identifiable information flows freely in so many organisations, it
Drystan Govender
Chief Technology Officer
What does it mean to upskill yourself in 2022?
It is that time of the year and again, for most of us, we are sitting with our managers talking about our skill plans for the year and wondering: “why do I have to do this if I already know everything there is to know to do my job” or we feel: “this will never get approved and it’s just a tick-box w
Ralph de Bruijn
Head of Training Center Operations
Don't Let Your Guard Down
The love month, February, is a month to let your hair down, but not your guard. In our busy and consuming lives, we often find ourselves letting our guard down when it comes to our security, Cyber Security specifically.
Kashiefa Sheik
Operations Manager
The EDR of the Future
Closing off a week of successfully securing operations here in SA for ReaQta, Cyber Retaliator Solutions looks to a major growth in requirement for EDR in the African Markets. What is EDR? For those who do not know, EDR stands for “Endpoint detection and response”.
Drystan Govender
Chief Technology Officer
Can you spell Ransomware
Is Ransomware a proper noun? Ransomware is malware that holds the data of a computer user for ransom, it is software that is released as open source, only in exchange for payment. After an explosion of ransomware in the mid-2010s, there was an inconspicuous decline, however with the obvious plague t
Dylan Nel
Chief Executive Officer
Why IBM training By Ralph de Bruijn
Why IBM training. Because IBM has been around for over 100 years, and they will be around tomorrow.
Ralph de Bruijn
Head of Training Center Operations