Gender diversity in security, risk management urged

Only about a quarter of security and risk management (SRM) executives are women. The good news is that, as the benefits of diversity are more widely realised, that number will increase by nearly 15% by 2020. “While this makes for pretty sober reading, the good...

768K Day could threaten Internet

According to experts, the next plausible Internet emergency, the 768K Day, might be upon us anytime now. There is a risk that when the global BGP routing table exceeds 768K, older routers might crash, causing a ripple effect leading to affected networks’...

Critically endangered Riverine Rabbit population found

The Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Drylands Conservation Programme has confirmed the presence of a population of Riverine Rabbits on the western side of the Baviaanskloof in late May 2019. This population represents a completely new distribution of the species not...

What happens to privacy in the cashless world?

Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Exponential Finance Summit in Cape Town – There’s a fear that exponential technology and exponential data is going to be adverse for personal privacy. This is not strictly true, according to Shane Glynn, co-founder and...

Transparency and its role in economic success

Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Exponential Finance Summit in Cape Town – Transparency changes everything – and it is here now. This is the word from Paul Pagnato, founder and CEO of PagnatoKarp, who believes transparency is the future. “And...

Securing National Archives with AI and blockchain

The University of Surrey is using its state-of-the-art blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies to secure the digital government records of national archives across the globe – including the UK, Australia and the US. In a paper to be presented at the...