Challenges and opportunities in data protection

Kathy Gibson is at Techscape 2022 – Covid-19 wasn’t the only challenge we lived through in 2021: supply chain issues, chip shortages, an upsurge in cybercrime, and the July riots all had a major impact on South African companies and the way they work. Kate...

Data backup and protection gets smart

Kathy Gibson is at Techscape 2022 – The many risks associated with IT are driving companies to look for smarter backup and data protection systems. It’s no secret that cybercrime is seeing a massive increase, says Hayden Sadler, country manager: South Africa at...

Africa to register mild economic growth in 2022

After being the slowest growing region in 2021, Africa will register mild growth in 2022 (+3.5%) as vaccination rates will remain very low (32% in the overall continent but only 4% in Sub-Saharan Africa) according to the Allianz Economic Outlook report Don’t...

Africa sees decline in mobile malware

While analysing the threat landscape of African countries, Kaspersky experts saw a steady decline in attacks on mobile devices in the region as cybercriminals consolidated their efforts to focus on more complicated, dangerous and profitable threats instead. These and...

Making the Internet a safer place

Microsoft South Africa shared the findings of the organisation’s latest Digital Civility Index (DCI) and facilitated discussions about how people can work together to promote safer, healthier, and more respectful online interactions for teenagers and adults...

South Africans unaware of how their data is collected by Facebook

In April 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the social network collects data from people online even if they don’t have a Facebook account. Even though this might sound like old news, research by the leading virtual private network NordVPN shows...