Defences improve, but ransomware still threatens SA businesses

Almost two-thirds (63%) of ransomware incidents in South Africa resulted in data being encrypted over the past year, according to the new State of Ransomware in South Africa 2026 report from Sophos. This is above the global average of 56% and an increase from the 60%...

20 years on and gender gap parity is fracturing

Twenty years after the World Economic Forum first measured the global gender gap, the world is closer to parity than ever, but progress is fragile, with gains reversing in some areas, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2026. Women now reach senior leadership in...

Unemployed are least likely to prioritise betting spending-limit tools

The online betting group most likely to prioritise debt repayment with a windfall is also the group least likely to ask regulators or operators for spending controls, according to new research from Softswiss. Fewer than four in 10 unemployed South Africans think...

AI-first enterprises will win big if they do it right

Kathy Gibson reports - Enterprises that are reshaping and reinventing business domains around artificial intelligence (AI) are on track to experience great return on investment (ROI) and become more competitive. But there is a currently a big disconnect between AI...

Kalane Rampai to leave Microsoft SA

Kalane Rampai has stepped down as MD of Microsoft South Africa. According to a statement from the company , he has decided to pursue an opportunity outside of Microsoft. Lillian Barnard, current President of Microsoft Africa and previous MD of Microsoft South Africa,...

Multimodal GenAI solutions to become the norm

A significant 40% of generative AI (GenAI) solutions will be multimodal (text, image, audio and video) by 2027, up from 1% in 2023, according to Gartner. This shift from individual to multimodal models provides an enhanced human-AI interaction and an opportunity for...

Wireless LAN backlogs pile up

The overall telecommunications, networking and data centre market is expected to exceed $10-billion by 2026, and see a healthy CAGR over the next five years - but enterprise wireless LAN backlogs will balloon to over 100% of revenues in 2022, leaving companies to get...

Operator network strategies set to disrupt IoT market

A new Juniper Research study has found that the global amount of data generated by roaming IoT connections will increase from 86 petabytes in 2022 to 1 100 petabytes by 2027; representing enough data to stream 165-million hours of 4K video from platforms such as...

Data leads MTN growth

MTN has reported group service revenue up by 12,8% for the six months ended 30 June 2022, with group data revenue up by 33,1% and group fintech revenue up by 9,9%. Earnings before tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) (before once-off items) grew by 13,7%, with...

Soft POS user base set to surge

A new study from Juniper Research has found the total number of merchants deploying soft POS solutions will surpass 34,5-million globally by 2027; rising from 6-million in 2022. This growth will be driven by Apple's entrance into the soft POS space; enabling iOS users...

Challenges lie ahead for circular economy adoption

Manufacturers and distributors face significant hurdles in shifting to a sustainable circular economy business strategy, despite widespread acknowledgement of the many benefits it will deliver. "The State of the Circular Economy" report from Sage shows the industry is...

Neobanking set for growth in SA

Neobanking is set to boom in South Africa, with nearly a quarter (24%) of South African internet users expected to have a digital-only bank account by 2023. According to Finder's Neobanking Adoption Report, which polled 2 179 South African internet users, around 15%...

Networks come under multiple consecutive attacks

A Sophos X-Ops Active Adversary whitepaper, "Multiple Attackers: A Clear and Present Danger" reveals that the prominent ransomware gangs Hive, LockBit and BlackCat consecutively attacked the same network. The first two attacks took place within two hours, and the...

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Realtime results in a connected world

The Internet of Things or IoT is a reality that cannot be ignored. Gartner forecasts that by this year, there will be 4,9-billion connected things in use and this will reach 25-billion by 2020. This is changing the way companies operate, forcing them to redefine their...

Riverbed offers SteelCentral AppInternals 10

Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, has announced the launch of Riverbed SteelCentral AppInternals 10, a breakthrough application performance management (APM) solution that helps IT teams take control of application performance...

Commvault a preferred Cisco partner

Commvault, a leader in data protection and information management, announced it is now a Preferred Solution Partner within the Cisco Solution Partner Program. The Internet of Everything (IoE) continues to bring together people, processes, data and things to enhance...

Achievement employment gap hampers IT skills

Lorraine Steyn, simplifier-in-chief of Khanyisa Real Systems challenges corporate South Africa and Industry to create internship programmes and spread their net wider when looking to hire graduates. The current frenzy to take top students is not doing the IT industry...

BlackBerry launches BlackBerry Leap in SA

BlackBerry has announced the availability of BlackBerry Leap in South Africa. Beginning today, consumers who want to get things done and companies looking for enterprise fleet renewals can now purchase the modern and powerful BlackBerry Leap. BlackBerry Leap features...

Interactive Intelligence a Gartner leader

Interactive Intelligence Group has been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for Contact Centre Infrastructure, Worldwide report. According to Gartner, Leaders in this report are “high-viability vendors with broad portfolios, significant market...

Online stores need flexible IT architecture

In the retail market, competitiveness has always revolved around differentiation, be this of product, price or service. However, as the world has become more digital and traditional retailers have joined the online retail market in the ecommerce space, differentiation...

Preparing for PCI DSS compliance

Any organisation that processes credit card transactions is required to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), says Simeon Tassev, director and QSA at Galix. This global standard was developed to ensure the payment card processes and all payment card data are secure throughout a transaction. Compliance requirements differ depending on the size of the organisation as well as their role in the process, however, one mistake many enterprises make is in believing that the compliance process is a simple task that takes at most a few weeks.

Insurance as a service

Studies conducted by Ovum reveal that the use of SaaS (software as a service) in the global insurance industry is already significant with at least a third of all insurers fully deploying or trialling SaaS currently. Despite a significant minority of insurers...

Infor M3 rolls out strategic enhancements

Infor, the industry cloud company, has announced Infor M3 version 13.3, delivering deep industry-specific functionality to cover a wide-range of unique business needs. Infor M3 is a comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution featuring core processes to...

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