Tips to protect your online identity

A recent US survey has found that 77% of consumers are concerned about online identity theft. And with 34% of respondents indicating they had experienced a cyberattack, it seems a matter of when rather than if a person gets hacked. By Niel van Rooyen, head:...

PayFast launches e-commerce performance index

2020 has been a shot of adrenaline to the e-commerce sector, with the Covid-19 pandemic boosting adoption rates across the board. It is estimated that the 1% to 2% hold the sector had in the retail space will double to as much as a 2% to 4% share by the end of the...

Mega cities integral to construction industry transformation

As the economy slowly starts to recover from the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, mega city developments might be just the catalyst needed to uplift small to medium-sized construction companies and bring about true transformation in the embattled industry,...

The risk manager is now hot stuff. Where to next?

People have been predicting for years that risk management will step from its back-office nook and into the leadership sphere. By Sean Pyott, MD of thryve This prediction gained some traction at the start of this century with integrated risk management (IRM) and...

Why efficiency matters in the modern data centre

For many decades, when anybody was talking about a computer’s performance, it would have been taken for granted that they were referring to its speed. In the high-octane world of today’s tennis court-sized supercomputers, this is measured in FLOPS, or floating-point...

SA fintech hopes to alleviate staff stress

Research indicates that 77% of South Africans are struggling financially due to the impact of the Covid-19 crisis. In addition, 86% of these consumers are concerned about their ability to pay their current bills and loans, with 21% planning to borrow the money from...