May 25, 2017
Safeguarding our digital identities will become a crucial task in our near futures as the digital and cyber worlds increasingly merge. Passwords and two-factor security rule the online world for most of us but in the near future biometrics will play a leading role,...
May 24, 2017
Organisations around the world have not done enough to keep up with the digital era – and leadership is falling short, with many chief executives not yet fully engaged in the initiatives of digital transformation. African companies match their global peers in...
May 24, 2017
Software-defined networking (SDN) is taking the world by storm as organisations seek greater control, performance and management across the data centre and the network; and recognise the benefits SDN can offer in terms of cost savings on capital and operating costs,...
May 24, 2017
Global sales of smartphones to end users totalled 380-million units in the first quarter of 2017, a 9,1% increase over the first quarter of 2016, according to Gartner. Mobile phone buyers are spending more to get a better phone, resulting in the rise in average...
May 24, 2017
The number of denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attacks doubled from 3% to 6% in 2016, due to the lack of sufficient security controls in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Of all IoT attacks, 60% originated from Asia, 21% from EMEA...
May 24, 2017
Mobile technology presents Africa with an unsurpassed opportunity to address its most stubborn development challenges: health, poverty, hunger and education. That’s the view of Vuyani Jarana, chief officer of Vodacom Business, who points out that while major...
