44% of META companies fail to protect their IoT

A recent Kaspersky report, “Pushing the limits: How to address specific cybersecurity demands and protect IoT”, reveals that in two-in-five businesses (44%) in the META region, some parts of their IoT infrastructure are yet to have any protection....

Strong set of financials from Alviva

South Africa’s largest distribution group, Alviva, has announced a strong set of results for the first six months of the year with revenue soaring by 52% to R11,4-billion. It is also the first set of results from the group since the acquisition of Tarsus...

VPN demand in Russia surges

According to in-house aggregated Atlas VPN user data, Virtual Private Network (VPN) installs in Russia surged by 1 906% in the last few days. The interest in VPNs started to increase on February 16, 2022, after the first wave of cyberattacks against Ukraine occurred....

Shot in the arm for Covid-19 vaccine storage and delivery

Looking to boost Covid-19 vaccine storage and distribution, the Department of Health is rolling out new cold-chain equipment throughout the country, thanks to a R74-million donation from Vodacom and the Vodafone Foundation. Vaccine storage is a challenge for various...

The future of the telco is in software

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 – Open software-defined technology is rapidly becoming the foundation on which telecommunications operators (telcos) are building modern networks that offer agile and flexible new services to customers. Both...

Telia delivers software-defined network slicing

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 – Software-defined services are at the heart of new network slicing capabilities that Telia launched today with its customer Sandvik, a Swedish multinational engineering company. Rainer Deutschmann, group chief...