South Africans fear spying from drones

According to the results of the recent Kaspersky Business Digitisation survey that was conducted in the Middle East, Turkiye, and Africa region, 44% of employees surveyed in South Africa are afraid of drone spying. Corporate spies and hackers use drones to get trade...

Nations stand to benefit from enhanced cybersecurity

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex – Cybersecurity is a pressing global challenge, but addressing it presents nations with a number of new opportunities as well. Badar Alsalehi, director-general of the Oman National Cert and head of ITU for regional cybersecurity,...
GenAI, LLMs make in impact in the contact centre

GenAI, LLMs make in impact in the contact centre

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex – The alignment of broadband availability, lower computing cost, increases in speed, processing power and storage have created a perfect storm for artificial intelligence (AI) to head into the mainstream business world. Omar...
Data governance key to future-proof security

Data governance key to future-proof security

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex – New technologies like artificial intelligence pose a cybersecurity threat – but will also be key to driving developments in data and security. Aloysius Cheang, chief security officer: Middle East and Central Asian Region...