SA has world’s highest cyberattack rate, identity visibility gap

South African companies have significant gaps in workforce password security, underscoring growing risks as they contend with rising cyber threats, increasing regulatory pressure, and limited visibility into user identities and access. This is according to a new study...

AI-enabled attacks drive ransomware surge

Cybercrime no longer functions as a series of isolated campaigns. Today, it operates as a system, with malicious hackers operating across an end-to-end life cycle and compressing the attack life cycle with shadow agents. This is the headline finding from the 2026...

Employees are the biggest cyber threat – and it will only get worse

South Africa experienced a 46% increase in insider cyber risk in 2026, surpassing the global average of 44%. What’s more, 63% of South African companies surveyed expect insider‑driven data losses to increase as growing numbers of disgruntled employees are resorting to...

Interconnected systems at risk of a digital pandemic

Are we ready for solar storms, submarine cable cuts, satellite disruptions, and extreme weather to disrupt communication networks and potentially trigger a “digital pandemic"? A new report – “When digital systems fail: The hidden risks of our digital world​" –...

IITPSA names 2023 President’s Awards finalists

The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) has announced the finalists for the 2023 IITPSA President's Awards. The awards recognise leaders in the ICT sector, and have grown in scope over 30 years to include the IT Personality of the...

All the Global Startup Awards Africa winners …

The Global Startup Awards Africa (GSA) Africa, in collaboration with the Global Innovation Initiative Group (GIIG), the Ethiopian Ministry of Labour and Skills (MOLS), the Ethiopian Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MInT) with the support of the Entrepreneurship...

Targeted email attacks on the rise

Malicious users seem to have understood that adapting some of the tricks used by advance persistent threat (APT) groups works well in achieving a wide variety of their goals, such as using ransomware for targeted hits on organisations. According to Kaspersky...

Critical ICT skills are in short supply

South African organisations are still battling to attract and retain critical skills locally, with many turning to overseas markets to fill positions. This is among the findings from Xpatweb's Critical Skills Survey 2020/21, which highlights the most in demand scarce...

Issues to consider on World Backup Day

It's World Backup Day today (31 March), and IT organisations now have to consider the issue of backup against the backdrop of remote working forced on us by Covid-19. Bizmod Consuling's Abri Vermeulen says, that with the lockdown last year, many companies and...

Global tablet sales set to plunge in 2021

Global demand for tablets surged in 2020, as Covid-19 lockdown measures forced people worldwide to switch to working and educating at home. Despite that, the entire market generated $39,9-billion in revenue last year, slightly above the 2019 levels. According to data...

Unified communications market soars in 2020

The worldwide Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) market grew 29,2% year-over-year and 7,1% quarter-over-quarter to $13,1-billion in the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Unified...

Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities drive ransomware attacks

Following the recent disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers, Check Point Research (CPR) has observed a global surge in the number of ransomware attacks. In fact, since the beginning of 2021, there has been a 9% increase monthly in...

NTT data centre breaks ground in Samrand

The turnkey development of the first NTT data centre in Africa at Centralpoint Innovation District in Samrand has begun. The development of Johannesburg 1 Data Centre - dubbed JOH1 - is being developed by Growthpoint on behalf of NTT and Dimension Data, which...

TymeBank SA reaches 3m customer milestone

Digital bank TymeBank has signed up 3-million customers just over two years after its launch in February 2019. The bank has been consistently onbaording 100 000 and 120 000 customers each month, which breaks down to between 3 000 and 5 000 new customers every day....

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Altonet delivers data protection for NAC

National Airways Corporation (NAC) is the largest general aviation company in Africa, offering a full range of aviation services including aircraft sales, aircraft maintenance, parts, charters, international operations and pilot training.  The company is headquartered...

MDM is crucial to leveraging BYOD

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Canonical, VMware collaborate on OpenStack

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FlightSite uses hosted contract centre model

FlightSite, a subsidiary of Club Travel, has been in operation since 2008 and is South Africa's first online travel agency. FlightSite has recently launched its FlightSite Agent platform, which allows anyone to become a travel agent by gaining access to a platform...

NEC delivers new MultiSync EA294WMi

NEC Display Solutions Europe has unveiled the MultiSync EA294WMi, an LED backlit display, boasting a future-ready design, extended input options and rich features perfectly designed to meet the demands of the modern office. The NEC MultiSync EA294WMi features an...

UC is the way forward for enterprises

With the increasing daily demand enterprises are experiencing it is important for them to look into a more streamlined and all-inclusive way to handle their communication traffic.  For most of the past decade enterprise customers have been migrating their...

Risk-based billing is the future

“Risk-based billing is set to change the image of the entire IT industry, and the software industry in particular.  "The IT giants of the future will be those who can deliver a product according to customer needs and are willing to bet their product delivers, not...

NetIQ releases CloudAccess 1.1

With the onslaught of cloud applications and services, IT teams need to more quickly and easily manage the workload in a controlled, secure and automated environment. By delivering a consistent single sign-on experience to users, protecting corporate data and helping...

E-commerce essential for modern distribution

The good old days, when consumers in South Africa still had to patiently wait – sometimes for months at a time – for the latest shiny gadget to slowly make its way to local shores before being able to get their hands on it, is long over.  Months before a local...

Youth Employment Accord to be signed

On Thursday 18 April 2013 President of South Africa Jacob Zuma will with social partners be publically signing the Youth Employment Accord. As part of the process, recruitment portal company Lulaway has been asked to attend in its capacity as a recruitment partner....

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Are you ready to elevate your career in the heart of innovation? We are on the lookout for a talented and driven SAP SCM Specialist to join our dynamic team at a major Chemical & Petroleum company based in the vibrant city of Cape Town. Candidate Requirements 5...

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Take care of your career health! Hybrid role in Cape Town for a Senior Java Developer in the Medical Aid sphere. Your current industry not your cup of tea - then this cuppa Java on for size! BOTH CONTRACT AND PERMANENT OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLEMy client who isa giant in...

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ENVIRONMENT:A Premier custom software and product development IT company, delivering custom-made solutions for large enterprises as well as dynamic start-ups is seeking to employ a Mulesoft Developer who has a minimum 7 years of software development experience, a...

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Are you ready to elevate your career in the heart of innovation? We are on the lookout for a talented and driven SAP SCM Specialist to join our dynamic team at a major Chemical & Petroleum company based in the vibrant city of Cape Town. Candidate Requirements 5...

Senior Java Developer – Gauteng

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Mulesoft Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg

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ENVIRONMENT:CONTRIBUTE to the design, implementation and maintenance of integration environments, development of software frameworks, procedures and applications to integrate systems as your technical expertise as a System Integration Engineer is sought by a prominent...

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