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...

Users at risk after Duolingo leak

Following the recent news on hackers obtaining data of almost 3 million Duolingo users, Surfshark data shows that the Duolingo data leak primarily impacted the US, with nearly 1-million accounts compromised. Key insights from the Surfshark study are: * 2,68-million...

Gartner identifies compliance function trends

Compliance leaders are facing pressure to make the most of existing resources despite economic challenges and increased workload volume and complexity, according to Gartner. To face these challenges, leaders must address three crucial compliance function trends this...

Mobile adware: The silent plague with no origin

The world is witnessing a plague of mobile adware, one of the most common forms of cyberthreats designed to collect personal information from a user's device, according to research from security specialist Check Point. The company says that about 4-billion people are...

Is SA’s lockdown lawful?

As South Africans grow restless in the face of their 57th day in a national lockdown aimed at curbing the impact of the Covid-19 crisis, at least one academic is questioning its legality. In the following article, Professor Robert Vivian, Professor of Finance and...

Facebook and the move to remote working

Facebook may make remote work permanent for at least half of its workers. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, speaking to staff via a livestream, says the move to remote working has been hastened by the Covid-19 pandemic, with most employees working from home now. Remote...

As lockdown eases, focus shifts to keeping employees safe

As governments in Africa start to ease lockdown restrictions and reopen local economies, chief financial officers (CFOs) are focusing on plans to provide a safe working environment for their employees and ensure that this safety can be sustained throughout the...

SA consumers reprioritise purchases

The Covid-19 outbreak looks set to further deepen and accelerate a well-established trend towards "cocooning" in South Africa as families stay home to keep safe and make better use of their finances - a trend that is likely to outlast the pandemic. This is according...

RPA implementation still lacking in SA

Robotic process automation (RPA) adoption is lagging in South Africa, and local organisations must move to organise their processes and start deploying RPA if they are to catch up with growing global progress towards hyper-automation. This is according to Johan Steyn,...

Most organisations plan to increase security spending

The coronavirus pandemic has changed almost every aspect of people`s lives, including how they socialize, shop, learn and work. With millions of people forced to spend more time indoors and online, these new circumstances created a huge space for cyber criminals to...

Massive growth in server attacks

While staying home is undoubtedly a safer option in these turbulent times, it does not mean that no threats are awaiting the users in the digital world. Kaspersky telemetry showed that both brute force attacks on databases and web attacks have grown by almost a...

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