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...

AI expected to be critical in learning and education

The shipments of smart devices in learning and education has mushroomed together with their capability, applicability, and value, says IDC, adding that the ecosystem now plays an increasingly important role in the market development with improved interoperability and...

IBM, Salesforce collaborate to speed up adoption of trustworthy AI

IBM and Salesforce have announced a collaboration to help shared clients accelerate business transformations with generative AI while helping to safeguard their data. According to the companies, clients can now access the following: * Driving adoption of AI...

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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