Aviation industry increases investment in cybersecurity
SITA's 2024 Air Transport IT Insights report reveals how airlines and airports are increasing investment in cybersecurity, biometrics and sustainable IT solutions to cope with growing digital threats and rising passenger numbers. Seventy-four percent of airlines and...
Vehicle market shows signs of recovery
The latest TransUnion South Africa Vehicle Pricing Index (VPI) for Q4 2024 reveals a cautiously optimistic outlook for the country’s automotive sector, with improving economic conditions encouraging consumer confidence while affordability challenges continue to shape...
New vehicles sales under pressure
New vehicle sales experienced their biggest losses during November since the beginning of 2021 when the market was beginning its slow recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. According to figures released by naamsa the Automotive Business Council, South Africa's new...
Datatec ups its stake in Mason Advisory
Datatec PLC has acquired an additional 40% holding in Mason Advisory from the management team, taking its interest to a majority shareholding of 80%. Mason Advisory is a UK-based digital and technology consultancy working across the public and private sectors, with...
Intel helps power a more resilient grid
Intel has announced that its technology is helping power the Edge for Smart Secondary Substations (E4S) Alliance's new solution to modernise the energy grid. The E4S solution disrupts the existing system, helping it move from a proprietary, closed-hardware...
Saffers listened to more local songs this year
Spotify Wrapped 2023 demonstrates that South Africans are consuming more local songs compared to 2022. Spotify Wrapped is the streaming company's thorough look into the music and podcasts that defined the year for South African users. Spotify Wrapped 2023 shows that...
Africa has a key role in the global green transition
Each year, the call for climate action appears to be intensifying from scientists, activists, and civil society. As global leaders gather at this year's 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), a key aspect that is expected to garner attention is tangible measures that...
Energy transition needs to be expedited
With political and business leaders gathering in Dubai this week for this year's UN Climate Change Conference, S&P Global has released new research highlighting the need for an expedited energy transition, in a special edition of its quarterly sustainability...
IBM advances geospatial AI to address climate challenges
IBM has announced new efforts that apply its geospatial AI technologies, including IBM's geospatial foundation model developed in collaboration with NASA, to climate efforts including analysis of urban heat islands in the United Arab Emirates (UAE); reforestation...
Cyber Week sales up from last year
Sales during Global online Cyber Week (21 November to 27 November) totaled $298-billion, up 6% year on year (YoY) from $281-billion in 2022. Growth was driven primarily by order volume, rather than inflation, signalling increased consumer demand for the first time in...
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Cybersecurity skills shortage a global issue
In March, Communications Deputy Minister Pinky Kekana announced that government was developing a long-term vision to address the cybersecurity skills within South Africa. Kekana advised delegates at the CEO Forum for Cybersecurity that government was looking at...
Finding AI’s role in industry
The digitalisation of the value chain as completely as possible has long been at the top of the agenda for the manufacturing industry. By Fadi Kanafani, senior director: Middle East, Africa and Pakistan at NetApp A self-organised and independently learning production...
Open Source and botnets: we’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto
When it comes to the global threat landscape, the second half of 2018 revealed the equivalent of cyberattacks on steroids. The NetScout Threat Intelligence Report 2018 reports that attackers had bulked up existing tactics, rapidly evolving new performance...
Is your TV ready for digital migration?
South Africa is moving from analogue terrestrial television to digital broadcasting in the very near future (while the deadline is meant to be June 2019, government says it will definitely be before July 2020). The reason behind this is that digital transmission...
How to bridge the disconnect between work and productivity
The challenge of measuring productivity has taken on a new twist in the digital age. One company has tackled the challenge and come up with new ways of solving an ongoing problem. Kathy Gibson found out more As the Fourth Industrial Revolution becomes a reality, the...
Creating an esports team – a pro’s view
2018 was a landmark year for South African esports as one of the country’s best teams took the battle overseas and made waves in the international scene. A year ago Bravado’s top Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) team relocated to Arizona in the U.S., a venture...
Kaspersky Lab enriches APT Intelligence Reports
Kaspersky Lab has enhanced its APT Intelligence Reports with contextual information related to advanced persistent threat (APT) actors and added mapping to the Mitre Att&ck threat model for previously discovered attacks. The improvements help security operations...
Branders Printing Co boosts business confidence
Branders Printing Co, a family-run business, has reaffirmed its confidence in the Xerox brand, with its recent purchase of the Xerox D95 light production printer. This follows on the very successful installation of the Xerox Versant 180 over a year ago. These Xerox...
Enterprise software development underpinned by trust and transparency
Like any long-term relationship, communication and honesty is key, writes Ross McLaren, chief operating officer of redPanda. Transparency is a concept that has become increasingly important in the business world. Studies emerging globally show that in the era of fake...
Security: the game is never over
The 2019 State of Cybersecurity in Small and Medium Size Businesses study by the Ponemon Institute revealed that most companies surveyed suffered severe financial consequences thanks to a cyber-attack. A study undertaken by Bromium and researcher Dr Michael McGuire...
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