Cisco deepens AI innovations to transform itself
Cisco – long a leader in the use of AI – has unveiled a wide variety of new and upcoming platform enhancements powered by the technology at its annual WebexOne showcase event to make it clear that the association has deepened, says GlobalData. Gregg Willsky, principal...
AI data centres add new power challenges
Kathy Gibson reports - The sustainable and reliable supply of power is a key concern as rapidly-growing data centres consume more and more electricity. The last 20 years have seen a massive evolution in the data centre, , which has created new challenges for power and...
New birthday phishing tactic could target 900m people
Security experts at NordVPN say they have identified a new trend whereby fraud victims are being contacted on their birthdays - thanks to the birth dates, as well as contact information such as email addresses and phone numbers, of more than 900-million people being...
Many Africans still believe cybercrime won’t affect them
Smartphones, applications, social media, artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and multiple other tools have all become part and parcel of daily life on the African continent, transforming how people connect, collaborate and engage. Unfortunately, they have also...
SIEM platforms market to reach $8,6bn by 2025
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions have dominated the enterprise security market for nearly two decades, and the market volume is expected to reach $8,6-billion by 2025, according to KuppingerCole analysts. Its compound annual growth rate...
UCT research gives insight into socio-economic ills – and how to fix them
The conclusion of the research project on Employment, Income Distribution and Inclusive Growth (REDI3X3) - a large-scale, multi-year research undertaking led by the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) -...
Cybercriminals exploit new fantasy game
"Hogwarts Legacy", the highly anticipated Harry Potter game set in the legendary wizarding world and already a bestseller on Steam and PlayStation 5, is set for its official release today (10 February). But, sadly, Harry and his legion of Potterheads around the world...
December sees surge in US cybersecurity hires
As everyone now recognises, 2022 was a tough year, with companies across several industries revisiting their hiring strategies - and the technology sector was no exception. Hiring activity in the cybersecurity space in the US also took a hit in 2022, but remained...
Customer enablement the future for supply chain players
Supply chain organisations that enable customers to get their own jobs done are twice as likely to receive repurchase orders compared with peers that focus merely on customer satisfaction or ease, according to a new survey from Gartner. The survey also found that...
Rise in manipulation fraud could result in more regulation
The UK has seen a 41% increase in payer manipulation fraud, (or as they call it, Authorised Push Payments fraud or APP), in the last year. And, unless banks take a proactive approach, they could soon face some stiff regulatory pressure. This is the warning from...
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Platforms can turn telcos into kings again
In conversations about telecommunications, moods can easily turn sour, writes Simon Carpenter, chief customer officer at SAP Africa. The golden age of the first mobile networks have faded somewhat. Data, once seen as a sideline and a potential revenue channel, has...
Why CX and ratings should be a two-way street
Customer experience management has traditionally been about customers being able to rate a business based on their interaction, or a business gathering information to better understand what a customer is thinking to provide a better service. But according to Bruce von...
Safely getting around online
The World Wide Web is a great resource, but that doesn't mean you don't have to take precautions, writes Sarel Lamprecht, MD of cyber insurance company Phishield. Although the Web is 27 years old, newspaper reports abound of people being taken for a ride. There are,...
Me-commerce: adapt or risk failure
South African retailers have little time left in which to change from traditional models to next generation 'me-commerce' models. Lee Gill, JDA Group vice-president: retail for retail strategy globally, says South Africa's traditional retailers had to face the fact...
MTN Business to unveil partner programme
MTN Business has earmarked 15 September 2016 as the official launch for its new partner programme, which will enable a broad range of partners to become part of the fast-growing MTN Business ICT and Mobile products and solutions ecosystem. "MTN, having expanded beyond...
Workflow on the go enables mobile workforce
IT solutions and services provider Dac Systems, in conjunction with its industry partner Nintex, has introduced the mobile Nintex Workflow platform - enabling workers to develop, complete and submit forms using their mobile phones, and create and manage custom-branded...
The mobile device management conundrum
Given the significant productivity benefits delivered by mobility, it is unsurprising to note that it is fast becoming a way of life in many organisations. In fact, Gartner predicts that as many as half of all employers will have instituted mandatory...
The triangle of accuracy in HR analytics
As a strategic partner to management, the information and insights HR offers are a crucial part of performance planning across the business. Brendon Gass, CEO of SmartHR, says that modern HR departments are therefore under pressure to make sure their data is relevant,...
It’s time to get granular with network access control
The network access control (NAC) market is expanding and evolving constantly in an attempt to deliver truly useful access control across device types, wries Simeon Tassev, MD of Galix Networking. NAC is once again a hot topic in light of the mobile diversity of...
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