Blue collar skills, training development can help combat unemployment

In the second quarter of 2021, South Africa’s unemployment rate was at 34,4%, a 6,8% increase from the first quarter of 2019, pushing unemployment beyond crisis level. By Kau Makgosa, project facilitator at Economic Development Solutions The government has...

Multi-cloud security doesn’t have to be complicated, just consistent

As organisations in every industry shift infrastructure and services to the cloud by means of a multi-cloud strategy, their business assets, software and applications become distributed across several cloud-hosting environments. By Kumar Vaibhav, solution architect at...

Kaspersky develops cybersecurity policy for bionic devices

Kaspersky is one of the first organisations to address the challenge of the human augmentation phenomenon, by presenting a comprehensive cybersecurity policy. The document aims to enhance the workforce while also considering employees’ security and welfare when...

The top storage trends for 2022

With 2021 behind us, we look at the storage market to see an exciting 2022 ahead of us. By Eric Herzog, chief marketing officer of Infinidat Cyber resilience, AI, supercharged application and workload performance and availability, and reduction of opex and capex in...

AvosLocker ransomware uses AnyDesk in safe mode to launch attacks

Sophos has released new research about AvosLocker ransomware, explaining how attackers attempt to bypass security controls by using a combination of Windows Safe Mode and the AnyDesk remote administration tool. Windows Safe Mode is an IT support method for resolving...

Made-in-SA world first combats fake news

South Africans are no strangers to the concept of fake news or disinformation circulating on social media. But they often feel helpless about their inability to correctly identify or combat it. The last couple of years have been a particularly rich field for...