SA travellers go digital for planning

Travellers in South Africa are becoming increasingly digitally dependent when it comes to planning, booking and experiencing travel. According to Travelport’s Global Digital Traveller Research 2018, nearly half (46%) of travellers in South Africa are now using...

SITA to launch government private cloud

The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) will launch its government private cloud on 23 November. Cloud computing is widely acknowledged as key to driving the journey through the fourth industrial revolution, marked by the profund integration of technology into...

SA students slug it out for R50 000

Cognity Advisory’s Universities Business Challenge (UBC), sponsored by General Electric (GE) and launched in July this year, has seen 500 students from 13 different universities across South Africa participate in a business simulation competition that’s...

New techniques needed to combat new risks

To get ahead of cyber adversaries, organisations will start to use more automation to combat threats. “We are seeing significant advances in cybercriminal tools and services which leverage automation and the precursors of artificial intelligence (AI),”...

African CISOs face vicious circle of risk

IT security leaders in businesses across the globe are stuck with their hands behind their backs when it comes to fighting off cybercrime. They lack influence in the boardroom and find it hard to justify the budgets they need; inevitably making their businesses more...

The complex state of European smartphones

Volumes dropped by nearly 5% in the EMEA smartphone market in the third quarter compared with the same quarter in 2017, but market value was up more than 10% over the year, according to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Total...