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...

Call for SA’s young citizens to be freed from lockdown

Lockdowns will not end while politicians have the excuse of a supposed duty to impose tyranny on the entire population, writes Eustace Davie, a director of the Free Market Foundation. Based on the excuse that they must, at all costs, keep high risk (mostly elderly)...

SUSE looks to the future

Kathy Gibson is at SUSECon Digital ’20 – It’s been a year since SUSE bought itself out of Micro Focus International and became an independent entity. During that time, the company has focused on helping customers to simplify, modernise and accelerate their businesses....