Third-party cybersecurity failures cost business

While more companies are investing in cybersecurity regardless of ROI (63% in 2017 compared to 56% in 2016), a new study from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International has found that the average cost of a cybersecurity incident is growing. According to the report ‘IT...

How to make users collaborate

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town – Technology has opened up a variety of ways to collaborate – but there’s not that much collaboration going on. Gartner analyst Jeffrey Mann points out that there are more choices available now than ever before from...

Are CIOs driving digital or holding it back?

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town – Over the last decade the macro-perspective of technology within organisations has changed radically. And this means CIOs who don’t change as well may find themselves redundant. In the past, IT did what it was...

How to make the tough decisions

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town – CIOs find themselves in the difficult position of having to make decisions that may change the organisation — often without sufficient information, analysis or time.”Digital is here,” says Parther...

Software megavendors face challenges of their own

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town – It’s not just enterprises that are being disrupted by digitalisation, the software megavendors are facing challenges of their own to remain relevant in the new environment. Between now and 2020, software as a...

Understand the limitations of AI

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — There are many misconceptions around artificial intelligence (AI) — it may not be happening quite the way science-fiction would have it, but it is definitely on a growth trajectory. “People worry that it...