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...

AI leaders join call for a slowdown in new developments

The call for a global slowdown on artificial intelligence (AI) development is gaining traction, with the leaders of the some of the world’s largest AI companies adding their voices. On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dr Dario Amodei penned an essay calling for AI companies to...

Unmanaged AI poses new ‘shadow agent’ crisis

A growing “shadow agent” crisis threatens to overwhelm businesses. According to the Veeam Software’ latest research, organisations across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are battling unmanaged AI on two fronts. On the data security front, 70% of organisations...

Coalition aims for AI that is secure by design

The new Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) is an open-source initiative designed to give all practitioners and developers the guidance and tools they need to create Secure-by Design AI systems. CoSAI will foster a collaborative ecosystem to share open-source...

IBM, Fermilab partner on quantum initiatives

The addition of IBM as a new partner in the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Centre, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centre hosted by Fermilab, has been approved by the US Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a...

CFOs turn to process mining for better RPA returns

A big majority (80%) of finance leaders agree finance must significantly accelerate its implementation of digital technology, such as robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence to effectively support the business by 2025, according to a survey by...

Soft global demand drives smartphone shipments down

Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 8,9% year over year in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This marks the third consecutive quarter of decline...

What SA users searched for in April

South Africans turned to Google to find out more about religious holidays, the KwaZulu Natal floods and social grants, based on Google search activity in April. In a rare coincidence, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Jewish Passover and Christian Easter overlapped in...

What are the most common knowledge gaps in cybersecurity?

Statistics from students of a corporate security awareness platform show that people most frequently make mistakes answering questions related to email and password usage. Tasks around these topics are in the top five most commonly failed by users. The compliance of...

Customers look for service information from third-parties

By 2025, 60% of customers will seek service in third-party sources of information not owned by the company, according to Gartner. Currently, younger customers already use third-party information sources more frequently than older consumers, suggesting that this trend...

China dominates e-commerce industry

China is the current leader in the e-commerce industry, and will remain in the lead until at least 2025. According to numbers presented by SafeBettingSites.com, the Chinese e-commerce industry will produce $1626-billion in yearly revenue by 2025. In 2021, the annual...

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EMC appoints new country lead for RSA

Julie Ferreira has been appointed country lead for RSA, The Security Division of EMC Southern Africa, with effect from 1 August 2014. Formerly head of Cisco South Africa’s Enterprise Sales operation, Ferreira has taken on responsibility for all RSA’s business...

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The time to act on POPI is now

Aside from suffering reputational damage, losing customers and failing to attract new ones, and paying out millions in damages to a civil class action, not complying with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) once it comes into effect could cost you up...

Move to the cloud to boost efficiencies

The South African digital economy is booming – with rapidly decreasing prices of connectivity, coupled with more and more cheap and cheerful entrants into the smartphone game, the average South African is now more exposed to cloud computing than ever before, says Elaine Wang, Microsoft business unit manager, Rectron.

Firewalls are the cornerstone of security

Despite claims of its demise, the firewall is still the foundation stone of security deployments. Doros Hadjizenonos, Check Point South Africa sales manager, looks at how it has adapted to combat three decades of threats. Was your business online 20 years ago?...

Embrace showrooming to ensure customer loyalty

As trends like online shopping, smartphones and social media have matured, so has the way in which customers research and purchase products and services, says Mark Hiller, GM at Lexmark South Africa. Although physical stores are far from dead, retailers continue to...

SSL encrypted traffic management key

According to Blue Coat, NSS research has uncovered that 25% to 35% of network traffic is encrypted within most modern organisations and according to Gartner by 2017 over half of the network attacks targeting enterprises will use encrypted traffic to evade controls....

Electronic signatures boost paperless office

The paperless office is a goal many organisations have been striving towards for a decade or more, with the aim of enhancing efficiency, saving money and improving green credentials. However, one of the biggest challenges in the quest to reduce paper usage is the...

CA innovates with lifecycle management

CA Southern Africa has revealed that CA Technologies has announced availability of CA Application Lifecycle Conductor, a new lifecycle management solution that automates and manages application development spanning mobile to mainframe environments - from the initial...

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