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...

Trend Micro, Interpol take down phishing platform

Trend Micro's close cooperation with global law enforcement authorities has led to another major win after the dismantling of a prolific phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) operation. Zaheer Ebrahim, solutions architect for Middle East and Africa at Trend comments: "Trend...

Surge in global cyberattacks

There has been a 8% surge in global weekly cyberattacks in the second quarter of 2023, the most significant increase in two years, highlighting how attackers have cunningly combined next-gen AI technologies with long-established tools like USB devices to conduct...

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...

Openserve adds copper broadband to wholesale offerings

Openserve will wholesale its copper broadband access network through its new suite of Openserve Pure Connect products across multiple speeds. According to Openserve CEO Althon Beukes, the wholesaling of copper broadband access product complements Openserve's overall...

Resilient decision-makers set up to succeed

To respond to the increasing demand for more custom products and experiences, organisations must pivot from an operational mindset around throughput and efficiency to a market-driven mindset. As IT and operations technology (OT) converge, companies will focus on using...

NFC-ready POS terminals close to 50m

According to a new research report from IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the market for NFC-ready POS terminals continued to show strong momentum in 2019 with annual shipments reaching an estimated 47,8-million units worldwide. The attach rate for NFC was highest in...

Fulcrum Biometrics shows faith in southern Africa

One of the world's leading identity management and biometric systems integrators, Texas-based Fulcrum Biometrics, has demonstrated its confidence in southern Africa with the establishment of a local office which will be headed by ICT veteran Rob Griggs. "We originally...

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