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🇿🇦 Southern Africa · Data resident in South Africa

Cybersecurity in South Africa.

South African organizations face POPIA, the Cybercrimes Act and SARB expectations, with ransomware and fraud hitting finance, mining and government hard. WoneShield secures and makes them recoverable, with data kept onshore.

South Africa · Cyber Risk Snapshot
Top threat
Ransomware
Key regulations
3
Data residency
In-country
Most-targeted sectors
Finance
86%
Mining
70%
Government
76%
Retail
60%
Ransomware against government, mining and logisticslive
Banking and card fraudlive

Compliance

The regulations South African organizations answer to.

POPIA

Protection of Personal Information Act

Data-protection duties and breach notification to the Information Regulator.

Cybercrimes Act

Cybercrimes Act

Criminalizes cyber offences and creates reporting obligations.

SARB

SARB / banking guidance

Cyber-resilience expectations for financial institutions.

WoneShield Comply maps your controls to these and auto-collects the evidence.

Threat landscape

What South African organizations are up against.

Ransomware against government, mining and logistics
Banking and card fraud
Phishing and account takeover

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87%
Exposure score
Critical risk
Expected annual loss
R41.5M
approx., based on industry benchmarks
More exposed than 74% of South African financial services orgs.
Ransomware89
Phishing / BEC96
Data breach84
Downtime77
Applicable in South Africa
POPIACybercrimes ActSARB
Breach-notification duties & penalties apply.
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