Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

Gloomy outlook for global economies as geopolitical tensions worsen

Coface’s latest risk review, Rates Against the Machine, has confirmed what the world dreaded just a few months ago has come to pass – rather than improve, the geopolitical situation has deteriorated once again. This, Coface says, puts upward pressure on commodity...

Banks are still missing the links between fraud and money laundering

Financial institutions are increasingly integrating their fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) systems, but intelligence and governance gaps remain. New fraud and AML convergence research from Datos Insights, commissioned by data and AI leader SAS, finds 86% report...

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...

SASE market sizzles to top $2bn in Q2

The overall SASE market - consisting of SD-WAN and SSE (security service edge) solutions - bucked economic uncertainty with 38% YoY revenue growth in the second quarter of 2023, according to the Dell'Oro Group, breaking through the $2-billion mark to set a new record....

Huge surge in illicit crypto transactions

Last year, the crypto space saw a shocking $20,6-billion worth of illicit transactions - the highest figure in the market`s history - and despite the market downturn, illicit crypto activity increased for the second consecutive year pushing the five-year total to...

SA users not clued up on passwords

The latest Kaspersky report, 'Defending digital privacy: Taking personal protection to the next level', has found that 87% of South African users are thinking up their own passwords, while 72% say they are unaware about how to check if any of their credentials have...

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...

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Lead AWS Python Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg

An available role currently exists for a Lead AWS Python Developer. The incumbent will be responsible for building solutions from requirements received from product owner and be able to work in an agile environment.AWS components such as Lambda, SQS , Dynamo DBAWS API...

Full Stack Developer – Gauteng Arcadia

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