Businesses must think about POPI
Southern Africa cautions against a “wait and see” approach regarding the implementation of the controls necessary to attain POPI (Protection of Personal Information) compliance. The POPI Act was passed into law at the end of 2013. Eren Ramdhani, security solution...
Kyocera achieves AEO certification
Kyocera Document Solutions Europe has successfully passed the on-site validation audits conducted by EU Customs and is now certified as an Authorised Economic Operator (AEO), a counter-terrorism and global trade certification. Continued growth in global trade and...
Bytes offers corporate governance solution
Complying with corporate governance regulations is essential for all publicly-traded companies, other companies that do business with them and, increasingly, the public sector. Part of the growing emphasis on corporate governance is driven by regulatory requirements,...
A regulatory checklist for SMEs
If you’re running a small business, you might feel overwhelmed by the many regulatory bodies and requirements in South Africa. From labour laws and tax regulations to municipal bylaws, health and safety regulations and consumer protection laws, you’ll be spending a...
MDM announces launch of Collibra software
Master Data Management (MDM), the official distributor of Collibra in South Africa, has announced that Collibra has further optimised their award-wining platform and released the advanced platform version 4.3. The new version continues to build upon Collibra’s...
Is POPI valuable to SA legislature?
The industry remains abuzz with talk around the recently gazetted Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, yet the compliance rate of South Africa’s enterprises varies significantly. For SMEs the pace to become compliant is considerably slower, according to the...
Keep personal information private with Adobe
The ratification of sections of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act last year has strengthened the rights of the consumer while forcing many organisations to rethink their information security strategies. As the expected deadline for compliance...
Acaveo named a ‘cool vendor’
Soarsoft International, a specialist of Information Governance, archive, migration, messaging and collaboration solutions and distributor of Acaveo solutions Africa and the Middle East, has announced the inclusion of Acaveo in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Information...
New ISO standard for records management
There is no doubt that information is the very lifeblood of an organisation. Through rules and acts around the management of this information, such as the King III report and the Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act, it needs to be more carefully managed than...
Control data at its source, grow compliance
As data volumes increase and information is generated by more and more sources, organisations have a pressing need to gain better control of their data, particularly data housed on-site and in hybrid or cloud-based solutions, says Chris Hathaway, director at Soarsoft...
Business rescue is not a magic salve
With some large local operations going into business rescue recently, the concept itself is probably still novel to many in South Africa, writes Gareth Cremen, a partner at Ramsay Webber Attorneys. Reports in the business press suggest that shortly after Leon Kirkinis...
Collibra named leader in data governance
Master Data Management (MDM), the official distributor of Collibra in South Africa, has announced that Collibra, a pioneer in creating business data authority solutions to enhance data value for the enterprise, was named a leader in the new report, The Forrester Wave:...