A South African company specialising in cyber security has received The Acronis #CyberFit Loyalty Award in the United States, given to Acronis’ partners for working and continuously growing with Acronis for over five years.
Acronis is a global data protection software company with headquarters in Switzerland and Singapore. The company helps other businesses to protect their data, applications, systems and productivity in more than 150 countries, safeguarding them against cyberattacks, hardware failures, natural disasters and human errors.
Steve Porter, Managing Director of IronTree, explained that from 16 000 partners around the world, the company outranked them all to win the award. “It is so important to us that a South African company has been acknowledged again. We’re a proudly African organisation,” he said.SA still plagues by cyber threats
According to a 2021 Interpol report, South Africa had 230 million cyber threat detections between January 2020 and February 2021. Additionally, the country recorded a 100% increase in mobile banking application fraud and is estimated to have suffered 577 malware attacks an hour in 2020. As a result, the country is considered to have the third-highest number of cybercrime victims worldwide.