At the moment I’m in Johannesburg, South Africa, talking at the opening of our local office about security and mitigation strategies.

Despite being a booming city, Johannesburg, tribute to its distant location from the information centers of the world, has remained somehow behind others in terms of internet connectivity. This may change very soon, though.

Source: Seacom HQ c/o Linda Carter

Meet Seacom. Seacom is a fiber optic network which connects a large part of the African continent with UK, France, Egypt, UAE and India. One of the interesting issues raised by some of the journalists during the past days is the link between cybercrime and Seacom.