As lockdown eases, focus shifts to keeping employees safe

As lockdown eases, focus shifts to keeping employees safe

As governments in Africa start to ease lockdown restrictions and reopen local economies, chief financial officers (CFOs) are focusing on plans to provide a safe working environment for their employees and ensure that this safety can be sustained throughout the...

SA consumers reprioritise purchases

The Covid-19 outbreak looks set to further deepen and accelerate a well-established trend towards “cocooning” in South Africa as families stay home to keep safe and make better use of their finances – a trend that is likely to outlast the pandemic....

RPA implementation still lacking in SA

Robotic process automation (RPA) adoption is lagging in South Africa, and local organisations must move to organise their processes and start deploying RPA if they are to catch up with growing global progress towards hyper-automation. This is according to Johan Steyn,...

Most organisations plan to increase security spending

The coronavirus pandemic has changed almost every aspect of people`s lives, including how they socialize, shop, learn and work. With millions of people forced to spend more time indoors and online, these new circumstances created a huge space for cyber criminals to...

Massive growth in server attacks

While staying home is undoubtedly a safer option in these turbulent times, it does not mean that no threats are awaiting the users in the digital world. Kaspersky telemetry showed that both brute force attacks on databases and web attacks have grown by almost a...

Vigilance needed to protect personal info in social grant system

As the most financially vulnerable South Africans apply for the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant made available as part of government’s R500-billion pandemic response, protecting their personal information should be paramount. The same applies to the...