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...

Businesses go beyond VPN to secure hybrid settings

With the migration to remote and hybrid work over the last year, cyberattacks have increased at a rate of three to five times compared to pre-Covid. For a while now, VPNs have been a staple of a standard security setup and a fast track for mobile business security....

Telcos move to better services and choice

Innovation and technological advancements over the past three decades have resulted in more competition across the telecoms value chain (TVC), bringing with it better services, greater customer choice and lower prices. This is one of the key findings of a report...

Mimecast warns of heightened whaling threat

Mimecast is warning organizations of an increased prevalence of targeted whaling attacks. Whaling attacks (also known as Business Email Compromise - BEC) use email sent from spoofed or similar sounding domain names, and appearing to be sent from the CEO or CFO, to...

Intelligent streaming for self-driving cars

At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Volvo revealed that it is developing intelligent, high bandwidth, streaming capabilities with its technology partner, Ericsson, that will ensure drivers and passengers get the most out of their time travelling in an...

Orange on track to disrupt banking services

On 4 January 2016, Orange announced exclusive negotiations with French financial services provider Groupama. According to Orange, the negotiations "could result in the acquisition by Orange of a 65% stake in Groupama Banque". John Delaney, associate vice-president:...

Asus takes home five CES awards

Asus has won five CES Innovation Awards for products with outstanding design and engineering at the 2016 International CES in Las Vegas. The five awarded products are the Asus Chromebit CS10 candy-bar-sized Chrome OS computing device, the Republic of Gamers (ROG) G752...

Advanced threat protection sales take off in 2015

Sales of network advanced threat protection (ATP) solutions, which detect sophisticated malware, reached $194-million worldwide in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), up 7% over 2Q15, and up 53 % over 3Q14. "Network ATP is by far the fastest-growing segment in the...

Security focus to be stepped up in 2016

The growing numbers of high profile hacks is forcing enterprises to focus more on security, particularly in the cloud and BYOD environment. This is according to Perry Hutton, regional director: Africa at Fortinet, who adds that high profile cyber-attacks last year...

2016: technology for the people

This year, the tech landscape will shift its focus to the individual rather than the masses, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. It's that time again - when we look back at the year that has passed and throw our predictions into the ring for what lies...

The many roles of the CIO

Looking to the year ahead, CEOs are expected to serve as experts in a wide range of areas – by their investors, their boards, their employees, and the public. “The CEO position is more complex than it ever has been – and CEOs must have a much broader and deeper skill...

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