Unearthing the IoT in agriculture

IoT M2M connectivity specialist Eseye has partnered with Burkard, designers and builders of air samplers for agricultural research since 1953, to harness the power of the IoT. Burkard has developed a piece of real-time pathogen monitoring equipment to predict and...

Market volatility drives payment protection

South Africa is currently experiencing difficult political and economic conditions, which has a direct impact on the financial and trading performance of businesses. Vulnerabilities to external shocks have also increased in a post-downgrade economy, with the impact of...

How ethical hacking can prevent fraud

Those of us who work in risk management spend a large portion of our time in a theoretical world, writes Rudi Dicks, senior consultant at BDO Cyber and Forensics Lab. However, from time to time it becomes necessary to do a practical test to see if the controls...

The short shift to cloud computing

It’s all about the ecosystem, writes Kabelo Makwane, MD of Accenture South Africa’s Cloud First business ‘Lift-and-shift’ — the classic approach to cloud migration — means this: take all your existing IT structures, procedures and...

Nokia security software taps automation, analytics

Nokia has announced its next-generation NetGuard Security Management Centre software, designed to bolster service providers’ ability to proactively detect, predict and combat the growing threat from ransomware and other types of malware. The volume, velocity and...

Biometric authentication and its use in banking

As the line between our digital and physical identities becomes more and more blurred, biometric identification and authentication are rapidly changing how we can potentially engage and interact with our banks both in terms of convenience and security. With...