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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Information security law is an emerging area of the law which is currently at the same stage of development as so-called "Internet law" or "cyber law" was at in the early 21st century.
There is no single law in South Africa that governs all of a company's information security obligations. Rather, ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Recently Helaine Leggat was one of the guests on Kaya FM to comment on the interception of email, voice, or other communications in the workplace and the right to privacy in the workplace.
Caution: The audio files on Michalsons can be large. Most are about 2.5MB in size and last for ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
More than protecting against "hacking":Information security involves more than simply protecting against intrusions by "hackers". (Historically the term "hacker" was used to describe an individual with skill and knowledge relating to operating systems and programming, whereas the term "cracker" described a person who intentionally sought access to computer systems or ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
This IT Security Pubcast focuses on matters of information security and risk in South Africa.
Part 1: 00:00:00 - 00:11:34 - 1.4MB
Speakers are introduced (including Helaine Leggat from Michalsons) and they discuss an issue they faced involving a leak of confidential information, how they exposed the weakness in the security system ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
By securing an organisation's information systems and networks, we are trying to protect the same assets organisations have traditionally attempted to protect (or protect against): competitive advantage, business uptime (availability), cash flow, financial loss, preservation of business relations, unforeseen legal and business resumption costs, intellectual property, commercial or public ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Terminology / Definitions
Merchants = Entities directly involved in the processing, storage, transmission and switching of (i) transaction data, (ii) cardholder information, or (iii) both.
Service Providers = Entities not directly involved in (i) to (iii) above but includes organisations who (i) provide services to Merchants or (ii) control the security of cardholder data ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
This is an index of the legal resources related to the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 as at 6 September 2008.
General
[EH van Coller De Jure (2006) 39(1) p163 - "Transparency and Access to Documents: A General Principle of European Community Law?"]
[M Richter LDD (2005) 9/2 p219 ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Section 43(5) of the ECT Act requires the supplier in an electronic transaction to "utilise a payment system that is sufficiently secure with reference to accepted technological standards at the time of the transaction and the type of transaction concerned." If a payment system is breached, the supplier must reimburse ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The ECT Act defines an electronic signature as data attached to, incorporated in, or logically associated with other data and which is intended by the user to serve as a signature. The ECT Act recognises the contractual freedom of parties to specify whether electronic signatures are required, and if so, ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Many people are wondering when it will be possible to get and use an advanced electronic signature. An advanced electronic signature is basically an electronic signature that has been accredited. Why would you want one? You could use your advanced electronic signature to sign an electronic document ...
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