Forty-five percent of CIOs are beginning to work with their CxO peers to bring IT and business area staff together to co-lead digital delivery on an enterprise-wide scale, according to Gartner’s annual global survey of CIOs and technology executives. ”CIOs face a...

AMD has announced the anticipated AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors and re-introduced the Threadripper processor lineup to the high-end desktop space with the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series processors. AMD is introducing the Ryzen Threadripper PRO...

Employees are applying only 54% of the new skills they learn, despite the number of skills required for a single job increasing by 10% year-over-year. A Gartner TalentNeuron data reveals that 33% of the skills needed three years ago are no longer relevant. The...

Enterprises must adapt to address telework security challenges long-term. This is one of the findings from Fortinet's 2020 Remote Workforce Cybersecurity Report, which shows how organisations are increasing their investments to secure remote work at scale. The survey...

Africa Data Centres and Benya Cables are entering into a strategic supply agreement to secure continuous sourcing of critical fibre optic technology and equipment. The agreement is for supply into seven of the biggest countries across Africa. Benya Cables, based in...

The 2020 Africa's Business Heroes (ABH) prize competition, a philanthropic program established by the Jack Ma Foundation's Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI), has shortlisted the top 20 finalists competing for a spot at this year's finale. The 20 entrepreneurs...

Consumer, business and credit information services agency Experian South Africa has confirmed that it has suffered a security breach that has exposed customer records. The breach is thought to have exposed some personal information of as many as 24-million South...

Threats related to the Covid-19 crisis defined the cybersecurity landscape in the second quarter of 2020, according to ESET's Q2 2020 Threat Report shows. "Our telemetry showed a continued influx of Covid-19 lures in Web and email attacks, as well as an increase in...

Kathy Gibson reports - We need to get on to the digital transformation journey and move along it quickly to take advantage of the opportunities. This is the word from Mark Walker, associate vice-president: sub-Saharan Africa at IDC, who reiterates how Covid-19 has...

Online security tops the charts as the most important factor for millennials looking to find their "digital comfort zones" at home, despite the fact that over a third of them globally (37%) think they're boring to be the victim of cybercrime, a new study by Kaspersky...