Symantec has launched a new tool giving small businesses a holistic view of how they measure up against their peers in terms of information protection efficiency and effectiveness.

Magix Integration has been appointed as commercial channel partner for Tenable Network Security (TNS) in Southern Africa. TNS provides a suite of solutions that offer real-time vulnerability, event and compliance monitoring in a single interface, simplifying the management of corporate IT infrastructures.

As South African companies invest significantly more resources in software escrow agreements – a good sign that directors and officers are becoming increasingly escrow savvy – attention needs to be paid to the details of the escrow agreements.

There can be no doubt that fraud is on the increase, and is becoming a growing concern for organisations across the board, particularly those in the financial services and government sectors.

Reflecting its status in Africa and the respect its employees have earned around the world, ContinuitySA has announced that four of its Business Continuity specialists will be presenting during the 2010 Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) from 23 to 26 March.

Recession – it’s a dirty word, no doubt about that, writes Glen Ansell, CEO of the i5 Group. But, where information technology is concerned, it may not be all bad, as it drives IT providers and consumers with the impetus to closely examine what they are using and, more importantly, how they are using it.