Regulations the top emerging risk for businesses

Regulations the top emerging risk for businesses

Concerns about rapidly accelerating privacy regulations and their associated regulatory burdens have become the top emerging risk that organisations face globally, according to Gartner’s latest Emerging Risks Monitor Report. The quarterly survey of 98 senior...

Companies fail to test incident response

A vast majority of organisations surveyed are still unprepared to properly respond to cybersecurity incidents, with 77% of respondents indicating they do not have a cybersecurity incident response plan applied consistently across the enterprise. This is according to a...

Twins Study reveals resilience of the human body

Results from NASA’s landmark Twins Study reveals some interesting, surprising and reassuring data about how one human body adapted to — and recovered from — the extreme environment of space. The study took place from 2015-2016; and results from...

The massive burden of debt for middle-income consumers

South Africa’s middle-income consumers on average spend 25% of their take home monthly income to pay interest accumulated on debt. This is according to FNB’s analysis of money management behaviour of its retail banking customers who earn between R7 000 and...

Clarity needed as 5G set to boom

As the first commercial deployments of 5G start to appear, the stage is set for consumers finally to find out what the powerful next-generation mobile standard promises can bring: an ambitious and far-reaching technological advance that transforms virtually all...

Smart speakers break shipment records

In the fourth quarter of 2018, the smart home market in Europe (Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe) reached almost 33-million units, representing 15,1% growth annually, according to research by International Data Corporation (IDC). In the full year 2018,...