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Employees are the biggest cyber threat – and it will only get worse

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Interconnected systems at risk of a digital pandemic

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Buckle up: 2025 is going to be a rough ride

Kathy Gibson reports - We are in for a bumpy ride in 2025, with artificial intelligence (AI) just one of the many global trends influencing the world around us. Indeed, futurist Dion Chang, founder of Flux Trends, describes 2025 as “stepping into the void”. He...

Cybersecurity should be top industry priority for 2025

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has found that an average of more than 2 000 new vulnerabilities are discovered in software every month, of which around 15% are classified as "critical". "In view of this constant threat situation, German...

New genomics project aims to improve global health

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All change for the channel as AI, CX take centre stage

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - So far, 2023 has been a turbulent year for the IT industry. Artificial intelligence (AI), long a niche play, has burst on to the scene and into the public consciousness, while the science of customer experience is quickly going...

Access Bank ups customer engagement with video

Kathy Gibson reports - Access Bank Ghana has implemented a video channel in its contact centre, giving its approximately 1-million customers a new and convenient way of engaging with the bank. Chimbar Nurokinan, head of contact centre at Access Bank Ghana, explains...

South Africans fear spying from drones

According to the results of the recent Kaspersky Business Digitisation survey that was conducted in the Middle East, Turkiye, and Africa region, 44% of employees surveyed in South Africa are afraid of drone spying. Corporate spies and hackers use drones to get trade...

Nations stand to benefit from enhanced cybersecurity

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - Cybersecurity is a pressing global challenge, but addressing it presents nations with a number of new opportunities as well. Badar Alsalehi, director-general of the Oman National Cert and head of ITU for regional cybersecurity, points...

GenAI, LLMs make in impact in the contact centre

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - The alignment of broadband availability, lower computing cost, increases in speed, processing power and storage have created a perfect storm for artificial intelligence (AI) to head into the mainstream business world. Omar Javaid,...

Energy drinks and sleepless nights – cybersecurity pros risk burnout

High level staff shortages and a growing cybercrime onslaught are putting South Africa's cybersecurity professionals at risk of burnout - with many suffering from exhaustion, insomnia, disengagement, and a range of physical symptoms. This emerged during a recent Cyber...

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New VAT regulations for electronic services soon

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