Cyber resilience the foundation for Africa’s next phase of digital growth

Building strong cyber resilience will be the key to sustaining the current remarkable growth of Africa’s digital economy, according to a new white paper from Mastercard. The report – Africa’s Digital Defence Race - highlights that between 2016 and 2025, mobile money...

Underfunding a leading cause of AI failures for SA firms

South African organisations whose AI ambitions outrun their budgets are seven times more likely to say AI has fallen short, according to preliminary results from DayOne’s State of AI Delivery in South Africa survey. Of the more than 170 employees, founders, managers...

Revenue to hit $1bn as quantum breakthroughs advance

Worldwide, quantum computing revenue is projected to total $1,1-billion in 2027, according to Gartner. “Nations and businesses have scaled spending in quantum literacy, patents, partnerships, and early use-case exploration,” says Gaurav Gupta, vice-president analyst...

Fuel price shock will hit supply chains hard, driving prices up

South Africa’s latest fuel price increase will put fresh pressure on already strained supply chains, says supply chain industry body SAPICS. The organisation warns that the cost impact is likely to extend far beyond the transport sector and into consumers’ pockets at...

Concerns over cloud security boost CNAPP market

The cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) market reached nearly $700-million in 2Q 2024 - achieving an impressive 42% year-over-year growth – according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. This acceleration reflects enterprises' focus on securing cloud...

New SteelFox malware targets popular software

Kaspersky experts have uncovered a new and ongoing malicious campaign that exploits popular software such as Foxit PDF Editor, AutoCAD, and JetBrains. The attackers employ stealer malware to capture victims' credit card information and details about their infected...

Cyber immunity aims to change the security industry

Kathy Gibson reports from Jordan - Kaspersky is on a mission to switch the narrative about security from mitigation to prevention. "We are a strong player in traditional security, but we know there is a gap," says Andrey Suvorov, head of the KasperskyOS business unit....

Safety checklist for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

During this week's Black Friday and the following Cyber Monday, 46% of shoppers will be making their purchases entirely online. But with cybersecurity threats at an all-time high, how can shoppers and businesses stay cybersafe? This is the question posed by global...

Kaspersky scotches political involvement reports

Eugene Kaspersky has poured cold water on reports that the cybersecurity company is closely affiliated with the Russian government. "These reports are bullshit," he bluntly told delegates to the Kaspersky Middle East, Turkey and Africa Cybersecurity Weekend taking...

Kaspersky advocates for critical infrastructure to be secure by design

Kathy Gibson reports from Jordan - Organisations around the world are being attacked by more sophisticated criminal gangs developing complex cyberattacks that are difficult to protect against. At the same time, they are expanding their field of operations to industry...

Expect industrial system attacks to increase

Kathy Gibson reports from Jordan - Industrial systems are under greater threat than ever - and we can expect this trend to escalate in 2023. Kaspersky has identified more than 400 zero-day vulnerabilities since 2016 in ICS, Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT...

Top 5 scams cybercriminals are running amid World Cup

The world's biggest sporting event, the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, kicks off on 20 November and, as well as exciting hundreds of millions of fans worldwide, it's also attracted the interest of cybercriminals looking to make a fast buck. To get a better overview of how...

Gates Foundation commits $7bn to Africa

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has reaffirmed the foundation's long-term commitment to Africa and to working directly with countries to support breakthrough solutions in health, agriculture, gender equality, and other critical areas....

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Processes Enterprise Quality Management Software should automate

Don't settle for something that can't keep up with your sequence of operations and doesn't deliver on productivity. This is the view of Ian Huntly, CEO and MD of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings, who says, in order to get the true value for money that an Enterprise...

Aspect Software appoints Stephen Ball as SVP

Aspect Software has formally appointed Stephen Ball to the position of senior vice-president (SVP) of Europe & Africa. Joining from global telecoms brand CenturyLink, Ball will spearhead Aspect's ambitious plans to increase its cloud contact centre market share in...

CX demands to be harnessed by analytics

The digital generation - Gen D - demands more of organisations across a growing number of digital channels. Analytics, agility and intelligent contact centre platforms help organisations deliver, says Deon Scheepers, manager: sales operations at Interactive...

More network decomposition expected in 2016

While the last 10 year has seen network functions consolidated into a single physical appliance, the move from the physical to the virtual world is now producing the opposite effect that will accelerate further in 2016, according to KEMP Technologies.  This...

Cell C is pleased to confirm that the B

The boards of Cell C and 3C Telecommunications have accepted the offers received from Blue Label Telecoms and Cell C management and staff and will now proceed with the next steps of the transaction as proposed. On 10 December 2015 Cell C announced that it has received...

Otel reduces costs with single sourcing

With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reducing its GDP outlook for South Africa to a dismal 1,3% for next year, from an initial acceptable forecast of 2.1%, it's clear that demand for goods and services will continue to be weak in 2016. Another indication of...

Linux Foundation advances blockchain technology

The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organisation enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced a new collaborative effort to advance the popular blockchain technology. The project will develop an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger...

Visual and functional upgrade for Cartrack mobile app

Cartrack has released an update of its fleet app. The latest version of the app is available for download from your app store and is available for Android, Windows and Blackberry 10 devices. Cartrack’s fleet management app provides Cartrack’s existing fleet customers...

NetApp to acquire SolidFire

NetApp has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SolidFire for $870-million in cash. Founded in 2010, SolidFire is a market leader in all-flash storage systems built for the next-generation data centre where simple scaling, set-and-forget management, assured...

Turn BYOX into competitive advantage

It’s widely accepted now that employees rather than the business dictate IT policy. Those of your people who don’t like the technology on which your organisation runs simply won’t use it – or won’t use it to good effect. This has a direct negative impact on...

SAP BW Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg Region

Provide technical solutions to fulfil business requests using SAP's BW(Business Warehouse) development language Design, develop, configure, migrate, test and implement SAP BW 7.xdata warehousing solutionsDesign and build data flows including InfoObjects,...

Senior Data Engineer – Western Cape Century City

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: The Data Engineer will have a knack for data analysis, data manipulation and data modelling. The consultant will be responsible for understanding and driving the overall technical vision and planning of a client's organisation and...

Mid-Level PHP Developer (MySQL, Laravel, Docker) (CPT Hybrid)

ENVIRONMENT:YOUR coding talents as a Mid-Level PHP Developer with strong MySQL, Laravel & AWS is sought by an innovative Marketing Services Company to join its team. Your role will include programming and deploying software applications, testing and quality...

Integration Developer

At iOCO, we're dedicated to driving innovation, fostering business agility, and ensuring digital resilience for our clients. We're currently looking for a skilled and experienced Integration Developer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you'll play a pivotal part...

Software Quality Engineer

Software Quality Engineer - Johannesburg, Gauteng (Contract)Are you passionate about taking your career to the Financial Services space? Then, do I have the opportunity for you! As a Software Quality Engineer, you get to use the automation framework and pre-defined...

BI Business Analyst at Datonomy Solutions

The team are in search of an intermediate business intelligence business analyst to:• Analyse business or legislative requirements, data and problems in order to design and implement sustainable data solutions.• Ensure optimisation, reduction of risk and data...

Data Engineer ( Analytics)

This position reports to the Engineering Manager and is remote Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Work closely with stakeholders, Data Engineers and BI Analysts to turn data into critical information andknowledge that can be used to make sound business...

Integration Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg

At iOCO, we're dedicated to driving innovation, fostering business agility, and ensuring digital resilience for our clients. We're currently looking for a skilled and experienced Integration Developer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you'll play a pivotal part...

Software Quality Engineer – Gauteng Braamfontein

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