Worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) is forecast to be $805,7-billion in 2023, an increase of 10,6% over 2022, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Internet of Things Spending Guide. Investments in the IoT ecosystem are...

Worldwide banking and investment services IT spending is forecast to total $652,1-billion in 2023, an increase of 8,1% from 2022, according to Gartner. Spending on software will see the largest growth with an increase of 13,5% this year. "Current economic headwinds...

A recent Gartner survey of more than 900 audit and risk leaders has revealed that most of their current focus is on assessing the impact of coronavirus on organisational operations and controls, as well as revising and executing the company audit plan. Just 4% of...

In 2019, 773 943 users of Kaspersky solutions globally were attacked by banking Trojans – with a third of them (35,1%) in the corporate sector. African countries were affected too: almost every hundredth user (varying from 0,9% to 1%) in South Africa, Ethiopia,...

South Africa’s Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association (WASPA) advises mobile users that they should expect to receive educational SMS (short message service) text messages to do with the current Covid-19 emergency. “Aside from expecting these messages...

Researchers at Check Point see a rising trend in a new ransomware tactic: “double extortion”. This tactic sees threat actors add an additional stage to a ransomware attack: prior to encrypting a victim’s database, hackers will extract large quantities of sensitive...

IDC is forecasting that the European smartphone market will likely fall in value by more than a quarter this year in the aftermath of widespread national lockdowns to combat the spread of coronavirus. Under IDC's current forecast, in a worst-case scenario the value...

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the IDC (International Data Corporation) Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide had forecast European artificial intelligence (AI) spending of $10-billion for 2020, and a healthy growth at a 33% CAGR throughout 2023. With the...

Strategy and investment consulting firm Singular has released its South African Health & Economic crises research to provide decision-makers with a concrete and focused view on how the crises in South Africa could develop over the next weeks and months. Singular...

Kathy Gibson is at the Dell Technologies Harness your Digital Future Virtual Summit - The four pillars of digital transformation are IT transformation, workforce transformation, security transformation and application transformation. This is the word from Walid Yehia,...