Nine of 10 countries demonstrating the best cybersecurity literacy skills are European, while Vatican City (or The Holy See) tops the global ranking, as the National Privacy Test results indicate. With 58 points, South Africa ranks 50th in the global scoreboard....

The rapid progress of AI tools in the finance function in recent times has made it more important than ever for chief financial officers (CFOs) and finance leaders to demonstrate three core pillars of human leadership: adaptivity, empathy and authenticity, according...

Kaspersky statistics show a sharp spike in network attacks in South Africa between 15 and 21 March 2020 - with affected devices increasing in number from the 20 000 to 30 000 average to peak at approximately 310 000 over these few days. The peak coincides with a time...

The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has called on South African ISPs and other ICT service providers to take steps to support Internet users engaged in online education during the Covid-19 national disaster period. These steps may include zero-rating...

A five-phase strategic and systematic approach to strengthen the resilience of organisations' current business models is key to business continuity during the coronavirus pandemic, says Gartner. "Companies tend to have traditional business continuity strategies and...

Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) experts have uncovered a targeted campaign to distribute Milum - a malicious Trojan that gains remote control of devices in various organisations, including those representing the industrial sector. This operation...

As the country prepares to go into a three-week lockdown from midnight tomorrow (26 March) to combat the national Covid-19 outbreak, businesses and employees across South Africa are putting the necessary measures in place to operate remotely. Unfortunately, this may...

Ricoh 3D has pledged to support the battle against Covid-19 by offering to help produce vital ventilators in the UK. "New ventilators are urgently required as the coronavirus crisis intensifies," says Mark Dickin, additive manufacturing & moulding engineering lead...

The impact of Covid-19 on the IT services sector will be deep, immediate, and long-lasting, say analysts GlobalData, and while there is a potential upside in most sectors, there is little optimism for IT services. The company has published a fully revised report,...

On Monday evening, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the escalation of measures the government will adopt in its battle to contain - and defeat - the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. His address to the nation outlining the new measures to be taken was as follows:...