SA success in 4th industrial revolution needs national effort

Automation impacts all industries, could grow business and create jobs, and SA can’t afford to fall behind. But for South Africa to compete successfully in a 4th industrial revolution economy, stakeholders across all sectors must work together to drive progress...

Blockchain set for key role among grocers

By 2025, 20% of the top 10 global grocers by revenue will be using blockchain for food safety and traceability to create visibility to production, quality and freshness. This is the prediction by Gartner, which says that annual grocery sales are on the rise in all...

Microsoft heads list of top global tech firms

Microsoft’s cloud strategy seems to be paying dividends and winning over market confidence as it has overtaken Apple to emerge as the world’s most valuable company in the list of “Global Top 25 Technology Companies by Market Capitalisation (M...

Key trends in PaaS, platform architecture

Gartner has identified the key trends impacting platform as a service (PaaS) technologies and platform architecture in 2019 and beyond. “The trends we see in PaaS both reflect and drive the trends in the continuous transformation of cloud computing and digital...
Meet Reuben, the 13-year-old IoT hacking expert

Meet Reuben, the 13-year-old IoT hacking expert

Kathy Gibson is with Kaspersky Lab in Cape Town – One of the youngest white hat hackers in the world, 13-year-old Reuben Paul is also a cyber security ambassador and committed to helping people use technology for good. At the Kaspersky Lab event yesterday, Reuben...

Who’s in charge of security awareness?

Kathy Gibson is with Kaspersky Lab in Cape Town – There is confusion about where the responsibility for cybersecurity awareness lies. Professor Basie Von Solms, research professor at the University of Johannesburg, believes it is a corporate governance issue....