Data privacy breaches costing insurance industry
Cyber claims have continued their upward trend over the past year - driven in large part by a rise in data and privacy breach incidents, according to Allianz Commercial’s annual cyber risk outlook. The frequency of large cyber claims (>€1-million) in the first six...
Financial inclusion demands better digital safety
Digital fraud cost South African consumers more than R740-million in 2022 alone, highlighting an urgent need for stronger digital safety measures to ensure true financial inclusion. And, as digital payments grow in popularity, so does the threat of fraud. The Southern...
WAN spend to increase 44% by 2026
The WAN market will grow by around 44% - from $59-billion in 2021 to $85-billion in 2026 - for the largest 5 000 companies globally, says market research and consulting firm, TeleGeography. According to a new five-year market forecast from its WAN Market Size Report,...
VMware aims to have a fully subscription-based model
Kathy Gibson is at VMware Explore in Barcelona - As companies move to a hybrid cloud and multi-cloud operations model, the way they licence their software has to change too. Ian Jansen van Rensburg, director: solutions engineering and lead technologist at VMware South...
Surge in companies turning to digital twin technology
The number of companies that mentioned "digital twin" technology in their company filings increased by 43% in 2022 compared to 2020, according to GlobalData's Company Filing Analytics Database, with the technology, construction, oil and gas, and mining sectors the...
Finalists for BCX Digital Innovation Awards revealed
Digital transformation in business has proven to be a driver of socio-economic growth globally, and the annual BCX Digital Innovation Award (DIA) encompasses the company's ethos that businesses can invent, evolve, and unite through digital innovation while creating...
Balancing data monetisation with data sovereignty
Kathy Gibson is at VMware Explore in Barcelona - As cloud computing takes off around the world, governments and critical industries are becoming more aware of the problems associated with data residing outside of national borders. New research conducted by Vanson...
Lateral protection the new security frontier
Kathy Gibson is at VMware Explore in Barcelona - Arguably the biggest challenge for CIOs and CEOs today is the mounting security threat. "And now there is a new battleground in security," says Raghu Raghuran, CEO of VMware. "We call it lateral security. "Customers...
Facing cloud chaos, CIOs aim to achieve cloud smart
Kathy Gibson is at VMware Explore in Barcelona - Companies around the world lived through a difficult two years with the pandemic - and for many of them things are getting worse. "Over the last few months the macro environments that customers work in have...
New SandStrike spyware targets Android users with booby-trapped VPN app
In the third quarter of 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a previously unknown Android espionage campaign dubbed SandStrike. The actor targets a Persian-speaking religion minority, Baháʼí, via distributing a VPN app that contains highly sophisticated spyware....
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Huawei P8 Lite wins at 2016 Innovation Awards
The Huawei P8 Lite has received an award for this year's Product of the Year at the annual Innovation Awards held in Johannesburg on 24 February. The P8 Lite won in the 'Value Smartphones Category' for 2016. "We are very excited about the award and have no doubt that...
Vox Telecom launches Kaspersky Endpoint Security for business
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Streaming Netflix locally just got a whole lot easier
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Profiling your customers through big data
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Risks in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Technology enhances healthcare, one step at a time
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E-commerce for small business owners
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Lorge celebrates three decades
2016 is a significant year for Lorge, marking 30 years in the business and still going strong. Brothers, Mike and Tony Lorge, who saw a need for business and accounting software solutions, founded the company in 1986. Over the years, the company has grown at a steady...
Code advice for tech startups
South African tech entrepreneurs that are struggling with getting their software systems (mobile, web or IoT) to a global standard, have the opportunity to sit down with a senior engineer or UX designer at Jozihub's App.Clinic sessions. App.Clinic @ Jozihub is a...
Met Office chooses cloud for weather services
The UK's Met Office has turned to CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) to underpin the next generation of innovative, mobile and cloud-based weather services. The UK's national weather service will use CA API Management to securely share its data with business partners,...
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DevOps Server Engineer (AWS) – Western Cape Cape Town
ENVIRONMENT:A strong technical DevOps Server Engineer is sought by a reputable Investment Firm – an ideal opportunity for someone wanting to expose themselves to Cloud platforms Microsoft Azure & AWS. The ideal candidate should be adept at a programming language...
UI / UX Designer at Parvana Recruitment – Western Cape Cape Town
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