Life-long learning for global business and shared services
CIMA, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and The Hackett Group have announced the first ever formal career development programme for the Global Business Services (GBS) and Shared Services. This follows the announcement of a strategic collaboration...
E-mail key for PoPI compliance
The much talked about Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act is now imminent, and organisations need to realise that the question is no longer around whether it will be implemented, but what they should do to gear up for it, says Simeon Tassev, director of...
Keep abreast of legal changes
Every business will face potential prosecution for not being compliant with the law. Non-compliant companies face risks including penalties imposed on the business and executives, jail time, negative publicity, operational suspension, decreased productivity and...
Old Mutual partners to grow African directors
Old Mutual Investment Group is collaborating with the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) and the INSEAD Corporate Governance Initiative in the offering of the inaugural Africa Directors Programme. The programme highlights the importance of enhancing the...
Is your WiFi policy POPI compliant?
In today’s digitally driven, information saturated world, data privacy is a massive issue. One only needs to look at recent high profile cases of corporate cybercrime (Sony, AshleyMadison.com) to grasp the scope of the challenge, says Craig Lowe, MD for execMobile. On...
The murky regulation of drones
The regulation of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) differs, sometimes remarkably, from country to country, says Michael Moran, regional head for African Aviation, Marsh. For UAS operations to be commercially viable, national and international aviation laws may need to...
Camargue helps businesses with POPI
In 2014, 974-million company records were lost or stolen in South Africa alone – which is 31 records every second and according to Camargue Underwriting Managers, MD, Mitch Marescia, with more than a third of South Africa’s companies experiencing data breaches, it is...
Get your small business ready for POPI
As if you needed something new to worry about, a piece of legislation called the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) recently came into effect in South Africa. This data privacy law means that it’s more important than ever for you to ensure that your data and...
MDM announces Collibra Connect
Master Data Management, reseller of Collibra in Southern Africa, has announced the Collibra’s latest advancement in data governance technology, Collibra Connect. Collibra Connect enables Active Data Governance, which ensures that your policies are followed, issues...
Easy, fast POPI compliance
With the enactment of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) on the horizon, businesses are taking a hard look at how they store and manage data. POPI will place a significant compliance burden on companies, and, as the primary legislation dealing with the...
Preparing for PCI DSS compliance
Any organisation that processes credit card transactions is required to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), says Simeon Tassev, director and QSA at Galix. This global standard was developed to ensure the payment card processes and all payment card data are secure throughout a transaction. Compliance requirements differ depending on the size of the organisation as well as their role in the process, however, one mistake many enterprises make is in believing that the compliance process is a simple task that takes at most a few weeks.
POPI: the race to data safety
The passing of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) into South African law in 2013 and the imminent appointment of an Information Regulator has forced local businesses to sit up and listen as they are given a deadline of a year to comply, says Gregory...