Electricity + Control June 2017

SOCIAL ENGINEERS

On 18 May Festo’s first Automation Expo was held at UrbanTree in Sandton. The latest Festo automation solutions and innovations were exhibited including Festo’s mobile demonstration and training facilities, the Expotainer and Eduvan. A seminar highlighted current industry trends and was followed by a traditional German beerfest. Festo’s Automation Expo and Beerfest

Festo: Russell Schwulst (Head of Business Development), Nico Land- man (Head of Didactic)and Adrian Bromfield (National Sales Manager).

Managing network security risks

(Right) Barry Elliot (Managing Director) and (left) Christo Buys (Managing Director and Business Manager, Control Systems and Software) at Rockwell Automation sub-Saharan Africa, were hosts for the day. Cybersecurityisnotoptional…itisanessentialtenetofeverynetworked system.Thiswasthestrongmessageconveyedattheofficialmediadayof ‘AfricaAutomationUniversityClassic 2017, byRockwell Automation’ at Emperors Palace.

Enquiries: Email cbuys@ra.rockwell.com

PhishMe empowers humans in the fight against Phishing

Networks Unlimited launched PhishMe products and solutions at Blue Valley Golf Estate in Centurion on 18 May. Gordon Lawson, Senior Vice President, Global Sales, PhishMe, gave the main address. With over 90% of cybersecurity breaches attributed to employee-targeted phishing, employees must be empowered to strengthen defences and help stop attacks in progress. Gordon Lawson explained how PhishMe can be part of this human phishing defence solution. Enquiries: Ingrid Mulaudzi. Email Ingrid.mulaudzi@nu.co.za

Gordon Lawson – Snr VP – PhishMe Global sales, Mazen Halawi – PhishMe Director META and Gregory Anderson – PhishMe Country Manager South Africa & Africa.

Gordon Lawson – Snr VP – Global sales and Anton Jacobsz – Networks Unlimited Managing Director.

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