How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

Financial professionals must adapt to expanding responsibilities

The role of finance is rapidly evolving - expanding in scope, requiring new skills and competencies, and demanding greater collaboration with teams across the organisation, according to a new report from the Association of International Certified Professional...

HR emails dominate phishing attacks

HR related email subjects continue to be utilised as a phishing strategy and make up more than 50% of top email subjects, according to KnowBe4's Q3 2023 global phishing report. Phishing emails continue to be one of the most common methods to effectively perpetuate...

As Covid surges, so do cyber-attacks on healthcare workers

As if Covid-19 wasn't enough of a crisis, the number of cyber-attacks on frontline healthcare responders have surged at the same time as the global pandemic, trending upwards almost entirely in line with case numbers. By March 2020, phishing emails had spiked by over...

AI spend set to double by 2024

Global spending on artificial intelligence (AI) is forecast to double over the next four years, growing from $50,1-billion in 2020 to more than $110-billion in 2024. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending...

Global smartphone sales plunge 20%

The Covid-19 pandemic continued to impact the global mobile phone industry, as worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 295-million units, a decline of 20,4% in the second quarter of 2020, according to Gartner. Among the top five smartphone vendors, Samsung...

Banks still not fully integrating ESG

Environmental, social and governance criteria (ESG) are not yet fully integrated into banks' strategies around the world. More responsible banking practices can be achieved if banks make the criteria part of their risk management frameworks and measure it more...

Inflation back in target range during July

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on August 25 that consumer price inflation increased from 2,2% year-on-year (y-o-y) in June to 3,2% y-o-y in August. Article by Lullu Krugel, chief economist for PwC Strategy Africa, and Dr Christie Viljoen, PwC...

Covid-19 tops the list of threats in 2020

Covid-19 related threats were the single largest type of threat in the first half of the year. In just six months, Trend Micro blocked 8,8-million Covid-19-related threats, nearly 92% of which were email-based. Cybercriminals shifted their focus from January through...

WEF delays Davos meeting, adds virtual engagement

The World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos is the latest major event to be disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The organisation has decided to reschedule the 2021 event to later in the year. According to Adrian Monck, MD: public engagement at the World...

DeathStalker: an APT that spies on SMEs

Kaspersky researchers have published a detailed overview of DeathStalker, a "mercenary" advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has been leveraging efficient espionage attacks on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the financial sector since at least...

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