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Ghana Navy and Defense Ministry Co-Host Africa Coastal and Maritime Surveillance

Finally, Mama Africa is racing against the clock to maintain security and build peace in the turbulent Gulf of Guinea, where piracy incidents are reputed to be the highest in the world.

ACCRA, March 28-29 – The Ghana Navy and the Ministry of Defense, in partnership with the International Quality and Productivity Centre, brought together experts in the maritime security in Africa and other advanced countries, to discuss and adopt modern strategies to deal effectively with maritime threats; at the third Coastal and Maritime Surveillance Africa conference and defense exhibition, at the Accra International Conference Centre.

: IDRISS ZACKARIA, CENTRAL AFRICA CORRESPONDENT, VIGILANCE-THE SECURITY MAGAZINE; Viewpoints; Posted On Thursday, 30 March 2017 12:16

New research reveals that 30 percent of malware attacks are zero day exploits

Thirty percent of malware can be classified as new or zero-day because it cannot be caught by legacy antivirus solutions, according to research published today in WatchGuard’s first Quarterly Internet Security Report, which explores the latest computer and network security threats affecting SMBs and distributed enterprises. The results from Q4 2016, confirm that cyber criminals’ capability to automatically repack or morph their malware has outpaced the AV industry’s ability to keep up with new signatures. This means that without advanced threat prevention, companies could be missing up to a third of malware.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Case Studies; Posted On Thursday, 30 March 2017 12:12

Is Islamism more dangerous than Nazism and Communism?

(Part I of II)

Those who have been observing the Libyan scene for the past several years have not had much cause for celebration. Of late, however, certain aspects of life in Libya seem to have turned to worse, particularly the increasingly insidious influence of Madkhali Salafist ideology in the eastern part of that country. Over the past couple of months, some imported books have been impounded under the pretext of non-payment of customs duties and fees, women have been barred from travelling abroad without a male companion- allegedly for security reasons- and a fanatical Salafist cleric from Saudi Arabia was invited by the eastern authorities to preach sermons in the mosques of that part of the country, supposedly because those authorities found his anti-Muslim Brotherhood rhetoric to their liking (The Muslim Brotherhood dominates the western part of Libya and is held responsible by the east of Libya for having sabotaged the democratic results of the 2014 elections in which Islamists won only 16% of the vote.) It is certainly not entirely clear why the authorities in the eastern part of Libya have yielded so easily to the Salafists. Some have seen this as a sop to those who accuse the secularists of eastern Libya of being anti-Islamic, while others see in this a ruse designed to dispel any doubts- in the minds of those who still have any- about the intolerance and obscurantism of the Islamists.

: Husam Dughman, Author and Political Analyst; Viewpoints; Posted On Thursday, 30 March 2017 12:07

Looking Beyond the EU for Security Exports

With the UK’s Brexit negotiations beginning to gather pace, the whole question of exports has become a lot more complicated over the last 12 months. With big changes approaching over the way the UK not only interacts with its European neighbours, but also the wider world, John Davies, Chairman of the BSIA's Export Council and Managing Director of TDSi, looks at the potential opportunities that could be presented following the triggering of Article 50.