It’s time we took steps to beat unemployment

The private sector has a significant role to play in growing business-ready skills and curtailing unemployment, says Alan Turnley-Jones, executive for services for the Middle East and Africa at Dimension Data. With the country having reached its highest unemployment...

Testing drives business continuity, cyber resilience

Most organisations fail to appreciate the importance – and benefits – of testing when it comes to business continuity … and cyber resilience. At ContinuitySA, client service manager Wayde Anderson says: “We live and breathe testing because we...

Volvo, Autoliv team up with NVidia for self-driving cars

Volvo Cars, along with automotive safety company Autoliv and NVidia, the artificial intelligence (AI) and visual computing company, are teaming up to develop advanced systems and software for self-driving cars. The three companies will work together with Zenuity, a...

Time to rein in app-mad employees

Malicious unmanned third party cloud applications downloaded onto desktops and devices are exposing enterprise networks to security issues with increasing frequency. Yet, many companies aren’t exercising appropriate control over the apps that employees are...

Multi-tenancy for the cloud enables economies of scale

Multi-tenancy is an architecture where a single instance of a software application runs on a server and services multiple customers – referred to, in this case, as tenants. “Multi-tenancy enables separation between tenants running applications in a shared...

Preventing Petya – stopping the next ransomware attack

Check Point’s Incident Response Team has been responding to multiple global infections caused by a new variant of the Petya malware, which first appeared in 2016 and is currently moving laterally within customer networks. It appears to be using the...