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...

Online privacy, cybersecurity awareness on a decline

The world's online privacy and cybersecurity awareness is declining, according to new research by NordVPN. Based on 25 analysed markets with the highest numbers of responses, people globally performed best in recognizing various online risks and how to avoid them...

Threat actors get creative, HP study finds

Threat actors are chaining different combinations of attacks together like Lego bricks to sneak past detection tools, according to HP's quarterly HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report. Based on data from millions of endpoints running HP Wolf Security, researchers...

Cryptocurrencies gain traction as global economy shrinks

The cryptocurrency sector continues to show strong growth despite a weak global economy. Over the past month. bitcoin is up 28% and is now trading at R169 000. Despite severe economic contraction since the global Covid-19 pandemic, this sector is acquiring new...

Video telematics numbers set to rise

A Berg Insight report covering the video telematics market shows that integration of cameras to enable various video-based solutions in commercial vehicle environments is one of the most important trends in the fleet telematics sector. Berg Insight's definition of...

Stress, anxiety rise as SA lockdown continues

South Africans are starting to suffer the effects of a prolonged lockdown. A survey conducted by gig technology company M4Jam, has revealed the behavioural trends and emotional distress that the Covid-19 pandemic has created. The results paint a bleak picture of...

ICT gets back to business in Phase 4 lockdown

As the South African economy starts to open up in Phase 4 of the lockdown, the information and communications technology (ICT) industry appears to be effectively back in the business, albeit in a reduced capacity. According to regulations issued yesterday in terms of...

SA urged to guard civil liberties

Civil liberties are being threatened, often accompanied by thunderous applause, writes Jacques Jonker, economic and legal analyst at the Free Market Foundation. Take heed of the following wise words. Ignore them at your own peril: "There is no crueler tyranny than...

Remote work boosts NAC market

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), the convergence of information technology (IT) and operation technology (OT), and customers' migration to the cloud at a faster pace are rapidly driving the network access control (NAC) market. According to Frost...

Protect against Covid-19 cyber attacks

In the Czech Republic, a cyber attack halted all urgent surgeries and rerouted critical patients in a busy hospital fighting Covid-19. In Germany, a food delivery company fell victim to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. In the US, workers received a slew...

GGDA helps Gauteng businesses navigate resources

Gauteng Province, as the heart of South African logistics and industry, stands to face the largest job losses due to reduced productivity, supply chain disruptions, labor force restrictions and global output contraction during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Growth and...

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