Securing Smart Cities grows three-fold in year one

Just a year has passed since Securing Smart Cities – a not-for-profit global initiative that aims to raise awareness and solve the existing and future cybersecurity problems of smart cities – was launched. Since that time the initiative’s supporting...

New solution to beat identity theft

Some experts call biometrics the answer to identity theft. Biometric verification is a process of identity authentication that is used to confirm identity through uniquely detectable biological traits and may be an effective tool in the war on crime. With the drastic...

Total data erasure and hard drive destruction

An increasing number of government regulations, industry standards and internal risk mitigation policies require organisations to sanitise storage media prior to disposal or reuse. Xperien has now introduced a hard drive degausser and physical destroyer, specifically...

Tips for managing BYOD security

BYOD has been a hot trend for some time now. More and more workers are using their personal cellphones and tablets to access company data. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2017, 50% of businesses will require their staff to supply their own devices for business...

ArchiMate modelling language freely available to SA firms

The third major revision to the ArchiMate Enterprise Architecture (EA) modelling language represents an enhanced way for technology professionals to visually depict EA strategy and transformation. The ArchiMate 3.0 Specification, an Open Group standard, was developed...

Why you should avoid misusing sick leave

When it comes to the issue of leave, one of the biggest challenges facing both employer and employee is the misuse of sick leave. A recent study by Occupational Care South Africa and Statistics South Africa found that an average of 15% of employees are absent on any...