Compliance bug bites SA companies
South African companies outside of the financial services industry are earnestly looking for data or information governance frameworks to meet statutory and regulatory requirements on the one hand and handle their data management lifecycle (DMLC) on the other. That’s...
POPI highlights need for cyber-risk policy
South African businesses are set to face even more legislation with the introduction of the Protection of Personal Information Bill (PoPI). The Bill has taken current restrictions to a whole new level, since it even restricts the way in which you may go about...
Act now on the imminent POPI bill
The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) act is, now more than ever, an immovable force that South African businesses will soon be expected to comprehensively address or risk facing harsh penalties for failure to act. After several reconsiderations and...
Data compliance is everyone’s business
Up until a couple of years ago, data compliance was the concern of only a few select industries such as financial services and healthcare. However, with an increase in the volume, and value, of data which both the public and private sectors are dealing with, there has...
Mimecast offers Large File Send for Outlook
Mimecast announced Large File Send for Outlook a new service that makes sending large files secure and easy for users but meets the governance and management needs of IT staff. The service will eliminate a common data security or "Shadow IT" threat caused when users...
E-mail security, compliance for SMBs
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the cornerstone of economic growth. According to a 2010 research report, 91% of formal business entities in South Africa are SMEs contributing between 52% and 57% to the country’s GDP, and about 61% to employment. They...
Break down silos for a cohesive view of GRC
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is not new and has been in existence for many decades, says Edward Carbutt, executive director at Marval South Africa. However, the recent recession, increasing legislation, more stringent guidelines and growing stakeholder...
Magix Security, STEALTHbits partner up
STEALTHbits Technologies, a leading developer of data and access governance solutions and Magix Security (Magix), an IT risk and security consulting firm, announced a partnership to offer STEALTHbits’ Data & Access Governance solutions to South African enterprises...
The power of collaboration
While the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) mandates that all listed companies must adopt the practices and guidelines outlined by the King III report, non-listed companies are increasingly reaping the benefits of sustainability reporting in their annual reports by...
Powertech consolidates domains
With help from its sister company, Bytes Systems Integration, Powertech has successfully completed an extensive project to consolidate multiple domains. The project is helping Powertech reduce its IT costs while improving security and boosting productivity. Powertech,...
Auditors demand good data governance
South African businesses are increasingly being prompted by their auditors to ensure they get their data governance act together since failure to do so, or do so successfully at this stage, derails the auditors’ ability to write them a clean bill of health, says...
Automate governance and compliance
As technology marches on, the reliance on human interaction is fast diminishing. This is something that now holds true with the automation of governance and compliance, provided by the BMC Server Automation suite from BMC, available locally through Quintica. According...