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...

Security threats are holding back innovation

A massive 64% of IT leaders believe that cybersecurity concerns are negatively impacting their organisation's willingness to invest in innovative tech, according to research by HPE Aruba Networking. This is part of a broader trend locally, with studies showing that...

Teenage cyberbullying: A toxic side-effect of online socialisation

Teenagers fall prey to bullying while using the Internet - a platform that provides safe haven for bullies - according to a questionnaire-based study by Wolters Kluwer published in a recent issue of the journal Medicine. "Cyberbullying represents a major concern...

EOH results show resilience

Despite the challenges of Covid-19, the EOH Group has turned in resilient financial performance over the last quarter. For the quarter ended 30 April 2020, revenue experienced some downward pressure as a result of the lockdown but the group delivered a positive EBITDA...

African Development Bank prioritises food security

The African Development Bank has unveiled a strategic roadmap of projects and programmes to assist African countries in tackling the nutrition and food security aspects of the Covid-19 crisis through a raft of immediate and longer-term measures. The Feed Africa...

Sophisticated APT group sharpens its toolkit

Kaspersky researchers have deconstructed an updated, more sophisticated toolset being deployed by APT group Cycldek, which has been targeting governments in Southeast Asia since at least 2013. Among the findings was a previously unknown malware - dubbed USBCulprit -...

Pandemic boosts Zoom revenue growth by 169%

Data obtained by Buyshares.co.uk indicates that revenue for video communication platform Zoom grew by 168,85% by the first quarter of the fiscal year 2021. During this period the revenue stood at $328-million. During the first quarter of the fiscal year 2020, the...

SA vulnerable to social unrest

South Africa has been flagged as highly vulnerable to social unrest in the next 18 months or so. This is according to the Social Risk Index (SRI) from Euler Hermes and Allianz, which gives South Africa a rating of 41.1. This places the country 79th out of 102...

PonyFinal presents new ransomware threat

Even though ransomware attacks are a constant risk in the digital landscape, a new type of malicious software based on the Java programming language has been discovered in the wild. Dubbed PonyFinal, it sees hackers gain access to a company's system via a brute force...

Business confidence in IT spend declines, despite lockdowns easing

Business confidence levels declined in the last week of May, according to the latest update to the IDC Covid-19 Tech Index. IT buyers in the US, Western Europe, and some parts of Asia/Pacific indicated that they now expect total IT spending to decline by more than...

Pandemic accelerates a new tech age

Covid-19 has accelerated the inevitable: before the pandemic, the world had been moving on an unavoidable path toward a new digital age, despite many businesses failing to invest in the requisite technologies. However, as the Covid-19 meteor hit global markets,...

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