There are blind spots in SA’s enterprise software supply chains
While autonomous AI agents are rapidly moving into enterprise production - with 99% of surveyed South African businesses already deploying agents in production - a critical gap persists between perceived governance and actual operational visibility, according to a new...
Your saved password could be part of SA’s ransomware problem
A ransom note is the last thing an attacker leaves on a South African network - and before it appears, someone has usually signed in with a stolen password or got in through a router that missed its updates. The attacker likely spent days or weeks finding the data...
Cyber resilience key for protecting business data
Kathy Gibson reports from Synology Open Day in Cape Town – Cyber resilience is the new buzzword in the enterprise space, with cybersecurity joining backup and restore to fully protect business data on all fronts. Mirian Lin, account manager at Synology, explains that...
Turn images into valuable business assets
Kathy Gibson reports from Synology Open Day in Cape Town – Consider for a moment how many images you come into contact with every day. They could be photographs, security camera stills, business cards, PDFs of documents, and more. Sure, the company stores them – but...
AI turns surveillance into smart security
Kathy Gibson reports from Synology Open Day in Cape Town – When it comes to surveillance, recording video data is important – but AI-powered search is key to building smarter systems that add value. Having offering video management and storage for about 18 years,...
Synology leads the return of the on-premise productivity suite
Kathy Gibson reports from Synology Open Day in Cape Town – As AI becomes pervasive, there is increasing pressure on organisations to retain control of their data. Mirian Lin, account manager at Synology, today introduced delegates to Synology’s Open Day in Cape Town...
Future-ready data storage key for modern enterprises
Kathy Gibson reports from Synology Open Day in Cape Town – In an increasingly digital and AI-led business environment, organisations are more dependent than ever on their data – and the ability to store, protect and manage this data becomes an existential issue. Mike...
Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them
Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...
Even when we know the warning signs, we still lose to fraud
South Africans are not falling for fraud because they don’t see it coming. New research from Yazi finds that three in four South Africans already know AI can clone a voice or fake a message, and that this awareness is sadly not changing what happens next. The data...
As business turns to AI for cybersecurity, individuals expand privacy protection
As cyberthreats grow and digital technologies become more pervasive, businesses are increasingly using AI to strengthen cybersecurity, while individuals are taking greater control of their personal data through privacy-enhancing tools, according to new OECD data. In...
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AI adoption is exposing the limits of cyber awareness
An organisation can train every employee to recognise a suspicious email and still expose sensitive information through an AI agent with excessive permissions. As businesses connect AI to their data and operations, cybersecurity awareness needs to reach the people...
The antidote to AI anxiety might be a plane ticket
In April 2026, Gallup’s annual State of the Global Workplace report revealed a global decline in employee engagement to just 20%, its lowest level since 2020. According to the report, the downward trend is driven by fears around job security, burned-out managers...
Every business needs project management, even if it doesn’t think it does
Every business reaches a point where informal coordination is no longer enough. By Alison Kadangwe, project manager at Change Logic When a company is small, people can make decisions quickly, everybody tends to know what everybody else is doing and, when something new...
ESG objectives must shift from reporting to real‑time accountability
South African businesses are increasingly realising that Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals can no longer be treated as a once‑a‑year reporting exercise. By Lauren Potgieter, country manager at Infobip South Africa Instead, ESG has become an ongoing...
Are SA’s cyber defenders ready for AI?
South Africa’s cybersecurity challenges are growing more complex as the country struggles to fill the roles needed to address them. By Eniola Lisoyi, head: department of networks, maths and systems engineering at Richfield A 2024 CSIR national survey found that 63% of...
Catastrophic events demand faster, smarter responses
The response mounted in the first hours and days following a catastrophic event can have far-reaching consequences for organisations, insurers, regulators and affected communities. This is the word from legal and industry experts speaking at an industry forum hosted...
Build a security culture that lasts
Cybersecurity training remains one of the most persistent challenges in corporate South Africa, not because organisations don’t invest in it, but because too many still treat it as a once-off exercise. Ticking a compliance box and moving on. The result? Employees...
Investing in employee experience could be the true driver of customer success
For businesses looking to build loyalty among their customers, success ultimately doesn’t hinge on marketing or advertising campaigns or on automation, AI bots and customer experience (CX) platforms, but on the quality of engagement provided by their customer service...
What the future of risk can teach us about building resilient leaders
South African businesses are no longer dealing with isolated shocks. They are operating in a permanent risk environment, and leadership models need to catch up. By Izabela Stofberg, chief underwriting officer at Santam Re. BDO’s 2026 Global Risk Landscape report...
Sophos launches AI Defense
Sophos has announced the general availability of Sophos AI Defense, which finds the AI tools employees and applications are using, including the ones security teams never approved, and enforces policy wherever they run. Every AI tool an organisation can’t see is a...
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Business Systems Analyst x 3 – Gauteng Centurion
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Software Engineer (.NET | C# | Blazor | AI) – Western Cape Cape Town Region
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Senior Full Stack Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
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Senior Full Stack Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Pretoria
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