Project Big-Bang, a collaborative industry-wide task team, has successfully reduced ATM bombings in South Africa by 30,7% during the predetermined measurement period of November, December and January 2024/5.

Physical security has become a strategic business function, improving IT collaboration and decision-making. Moreover, interest in AI has more than doubled among users, and organisations seek flexibility to deploy workloads on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid.

DeepAlert has appointed Howard Harrison as chief executive officer. DeepAlert’s founder and CEO of the past six years, Dr Jasper Horrell, will transition into a newly created role as chief innovation officer.

The dominant attack patterns in Q4 2025 included system-prompt extraction attempts, subtle content-safety bypasses, and exploratory probing. Indirect attacks required fewer attempts than direct injections, making untrusted external sources a primary risk vector heading into 2026.

The AU10TIX Global Fraud Report, Signals for 2026, warns of the looming agentic AI and quantum risk, leading to a surge in adaptive, self-learning fraud, and outlines how early warning systems are fighting back.

Visionplatform.ai announced the public launch of its new visionplatform.ai Agent Suite for Milestone XProtect, adding reasoning, context and assisted decision-making on top of existing video analytics and events — without sending video to the cloud.

Check Point Software Technologies released its African Perspectives on Cybersecurity Report 2025, revealing a sharp rise in attacks across the continent and a major shift in attacker tactics driven by artificial intelligence

Gallagher Security Africa’s inaugural Command the Future 2025 event was a resounding success, reinforcing Gallagher’s commitment to innovation, collaboration, and long-term growth in Africa’s rapidly evolving security industry.

Criminals are exploiting South Africa’s high connectivity and still-maturing regulation to scale attacks faster than we can defend them. The speed and sophistication of these scams are outpacing the systems designed to stop them.