Cyber safety should be on the business agenda every day
Safer Internet Day (today, 6 February) is aimed at making both individuals and companies more aware of the ever-more prevalent cyber risks that they could fall foul of. And make no mistake: Cybercrime is a particularly serious threat to South African businesses....
Play your part in making the Internet better
Safer Internet Day is a campaign designed to encourage everybody - from kids to parents to educators - to play their part in creating a better Internet. Renee Tarun, deputy chief information security officer at Fortinet, highlights the importance of this initiative...
Small cyber attacks on the rise
Small bit-and-piece DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service) boomed by 233% in the first half of 2021, according to Nexusguard researchers in the Threat Report FHY 2021. As the pandemic carried on into 2021, hackers experimented with new attack patterns to avoid...
These are the top strategic technology trends for 2022
Gartner has announced the top strategic technology trends that organisations need to explore in 2022. “With CEOs and boards striving to find growth through direct digital connections with customers, CIOs’ priorities must reflect the same business imperatives, which...
SA energy sector has G20’s highest carbon intensity
Despite an increased contribution from renewables, South Africa's energy sector still has the highest carbon-intensity of any G20 nation due to its heavy reliance on coal. According to the latest assessment by Climate Transparency International, in 2020,...
Remote working drives new security threats
A significant 74% of security decision makers across US and Europe say procedures and controls have become more complex - and 73% are struggling to manage the increase in threats. "It was like changing an engine on a plane while it was in flight." That's how one...
Passwordless security gains popularity
Enterprises are taking steps to move away from passwords and adopting low-friction authentication methods to protect the hybrid workforce. According to a new report published today from Cisco's Duo Security, while the total number of Duo MFA authentications increased...
B2B domestic payment transactions to return to pre-Covid levels by 2023
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the transaction value of B2B domestic payments across payment methods will exceed $54-trillion in 2023, up from $49-trillion in 2021. The research predicts a growth of 10%; reflecting a slow recovery in business...
Third-party incidents the most costly data breaches
The latest edition of Kaspersky's annual IT Security Economics report reveals the growing severity of cybersecurity incidents affecting businesses through suppliers that they share data with. The average financial impact of such an event for an enterprise reached...
IT and business services show signs of recovery
Worldwide IT and business services revenue is expected to grow by 3.4% (in constant currency) in 2021, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Services Tracker. In nominal dollar denominated revenue based on today's exchange rate,...
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Managed service support key for iWayAfrica
Pan African telecoms operator, Gondwana International Networks (GIN), has announced that its iWayAfrica business will be partnering with managed services company, SevenC Computing to grow its foothold in key Africa territories. The move will enable GIN and iWayAfrica...
Dell Vostro 3900 Mini Tower Desktop from DCC
Durable, dependable and affordable computing for the home and SMB user is now more powerful than ever with the new Dell Vostro 3900 Mini Tower Desktop from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC). With the latest generation Intel Core processors in a compact mini...
GIT launches VideoFlow solution
As quality and availability of bandwidth has improved, so Internet protocol (IP) has become a cost-effective alternative to satellite as a means for broadcasting video contribution and distribution. However, in order to overcome the challenges of packet loss, jitter...
Business management must go mobile
The expansion of the mobile technology frontier, reflected by the convergence of solutions, devices and applications to support collaborative system infrastructure, calls for a new level of service from technology service providers. Today, the market demands that...
Mobility, cloud security solutions needed
Trends such as mobility, BYOD and cloud have completely revolutionised the way we do business, by giving users access to the information they need anytime and from anywhere. Unfortunately, as much as businesses have gained from these trends, so have they been put at...
Huawei Ascend Y330 available from DCC
Smartphones don't have to cost a fortune. With the Huawei Ascend Y330 smartphone from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC), you can have all of the benefits of a touchscreen, Android operating system (OS) and impressive specifications, without the hefty price...
Cybersmart launches 100Mbps Internet
Internet service provider Cybersmart has launched Lightspeed, a 100Mbps uncapped fibre service. CEO, Laurie Fialkov, says that for the first time South African companies will have access to world-class broadband speeds at an internationally comparable price....
IRESS brings market data to the masses
IRESS, a principal supplier of share market and wealth management systems in Australia, Asia, Canada, New Zealand the UK and South Africa has created a Twitter tool that allows anyone following the @iress_data account to request share price information from it using...
BDS hosts Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge
Bytes Document Solutions hosted the Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge for the second time on 16 July, at the Johannesburg Country Club’s Woodmead Golf Course. This year marks the 16th year of the Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge, which consists of 12 qualifying rounds that...
SA companies need to rethink mobile security
Over the past three decades, legislatures across the world have been trying to update their legal systems to address growing concerns around how our private information is being used once handed over to companies in both the public and private sectors, says Nader...
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