New weapons needed to fight cybercrime

While passwords alone do not provide adequate levels of security, their convenience means that they are still widely deployed. But criminals are already finding ways around these and more advanced security precautions. Although passwords will be phased out as the...

Complex IT infrastructure stymies SMEs

As their businesses grow, companies increasingly embrace new business tools and cloud services in an attempt to make their employees’ working lives more efficient and flexible, as well as reduce expenditures – but they could be opening up security...

Employee engagement key to customer experience

Employee engagement has surfaced as a major concern in delivering improvements in customer experience (CX), with 86% of CX executives in a Gartner survey ranking it as having an equal or greater impact than other factors such as project management and data skills....

Content-filtering will inhibit European start-ups

Legislators in the EU have proposed the introduction of mandatory content filters for providers of online services, intended to better protect the rights of copyrights holders and to ensure they receive an equitable share of the value created by those rights. However,...

Capitec hands top banking spot to FNB

FNB has emerged as the overall winner in Columinate’s seventh annual SITEisfaction report, reclaiming its spot as the Best Digital Bank by winning both the Best Mobile Banking and Best Internet Banking categories. FNB’s rise in satisfaction levels was not...

Fujitsu’s AI system ranks fifth in TOP500

Fujitsu’s AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI) system has placed fifth in the world, and first in Japan, in the TOP500 international performance ranking of supercomputers. ABCI has also taken eighth place in the world in Green500, which ranks outstanding...