How to compete in the trust and attention economy

Leveraging your data is not a tech problem, it’s about your internal coordination, team and resources, writes JD Engelbrecht, MD of Everlytic. As businesses and consumers, we are accumulating data faster than ever before. Today, we have progressed far beyond the...

Stanlib enables remote working with Nutanix

South African financial services company Stanlib is working with Nutanix to secure additional nodes that enable the organisation to provide virtual desktops to employees that have been required to work from home during the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in the...

Mastercard launches AI-powered protection

Mastercard has announced Cyber Secure, an AI-powered suite of tools that allows banks to assess cyber risk across their ecosystem and prevent potential breaches. With these capabilities, banks can identify and prioritize threats and vulnerabilities throughout their...

Black Friday: the pandemic edition

Black Friday 2020. It’s a date that, in the past, would herald long queues, close confines and fights over discounted television sets and kitchenware. Today, this picture needs to be framed by social distancing, masks, and reduced physical risk. But, asks Wynand...

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...