CIOs can’t ignore the rising tide of deepfake attacks
A 2025 Gartner survey of 302 cybersecurity leaders revealed that deepfake incidents are increasingly impacting organisations, with 43% reporting at least one audio call incident and 37% experiencing deepfakes in video calls. CIOs and security leaders who underestimate...
Agentic AI to take business automation to new heights
Agentic AI is expected to play a central role in the digital transformation of enterprise systems to AI-native stacks, says data and analytics group GlobalData. Agentic AI holds much promise for improving the efficiency of enterprise workflows, reducing costs, and...
AI drives a surge in skills development needs
As digital and AI trends continue to disrupt work, 85% of business leaders agree that the need for skills development will dramatically increase over the next three years, according to Gartner. According to a June 2024 Gartner survey of 330 business leaders, 93%...
IT distribution revenues remain stable
Distributor revenues inched up from the previous quarter to $20,2-billion in the third quarter of 2024 (3Q24), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) North America Distribution Tracker. Year-over-year growth was down a fraction of a percent with...
Robotics industry set to bounce back
The global demand for robotics has been shifting back and forth over the past few years with the pandemic-driven sales boom followed by stagnation in 2024. However, after a year of stagnant sales, the entire industry is set to witness a significant recovery – with...
As delinquencies grow, lenders look to alternative credit data for help
As visibility into consumer risk provided by traditional credit data shifts, financial institutions worldwide are expanding their use of alternative data throughout the consumer lending journey, according to Lexis Nexis’ inaugural Global Consumer Lending Confidence...
Strong outlook for global sensor market
The global sensor market is well established, with hundreds of millions of sensors produced yearly. Yet the market remains in flux, with trends in future mobility, edge computing, AI, and digital healthcare continuously evolving and reshaping sensor technology...
Telematics credited with big drop in road incidents
Commercial transport operators in South Africa have reported a 78% reduction in road incidents - from 1 313 last year to 286 this year – according to the third annual Webfleet Road Safety Report 2024. Enhanced driver training, increased adoption of telematics, and...
Fintech users under threat from malicious Telegram campaign
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis team (GReAT) has uncovered a malicious global campaign in which attackers used Telegram to deliver Trojan spyware, potentially targeting individuals and businesses in the fintech and trading industries in multiple countries...
iStore adds Apple Intelligence training
Apple Intelligence - a personal intelligence system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac – is now available. Apple Intelligence integrates generative models into iPhone, iPad, and Mac, offering context-aware, personalised assistance across apps and tasks. It includes features...
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As the country hardest-hit by the coronavirus on the continent, South Africa has been regrettably slow with its vaccine rollout, writes Mervyn George, executive advisor: strategic engagements at SAP Africa. A first phase, which focused on healthcare workers, concluded...
Mitigating the risk of migrating data
Data migration is part and parcel of any IT deployment. Whether businesses are upgrading infrastructure, implementing a new application or making the move to the cloud, data frequently needs to be moved from one place to another. By Amit Singh, solution architect at...
Digicloud named Google Cloud Expansion Partner of the Year
Digicloud Africa, a Google Cloud reseller enablement partner in Africa, has been named the 2020 Google Cloud Expansion Partner of the Year - Europe, Middle East, and Africa. The annual award recognises one partner in the region that has shown outstanding success in...
Smart technology transforms access to energy
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How to figure out the complexities of ETI
Introduced by government in 2013, the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) scheme is designed to encourage employers to hire young work seekers by sharing costs. Even though it was only intended to run for three years, such was its success and the continued need to support...
You need to be cloud-ready in a new business environment
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Secure your network from all angles
Making your network safe from the traditional north to south perspective is no longer enough. In a digital world, micro-segmentation that secures it from east to west is also vital. In the modern era of cyber-crime, ransomware and digital threat vectors, your...
Cybersecurity: businesses building walls to defend against nuclear attacks
While the growing number of data breaches and cyber attacks on companies shows that organisations are often not adequately equipped to protect themselves against such threats, privacy regulations being rolled out in many countries, such as GDPR in Europe and PoPIA in...
How will POPIA impact cloud providers?
While Covid-19 has seen organisations shift to cloud platforms overnight to help them remain operational while their workforces are operating remotely, too many are not up to speed with what this means in terms of their data. This is particularly true now that the...
Addiction and remote working: the role of employers
The annual economic impact of Substance Use Disorders (SUD) on the employment sector amounts to millions in lost time, productivity and income. And according to the Achkar Law company, employees are at greater risk to develop unhealthy habits while working from home...
Senior PHP Developer (Hybrid) (PTA) – Gauteng Pretoria
ENVIRONMENT:Join a High-Impact Development Team Working on Scalable, Modern Web Platforms. They are an experienced Laravel Developer to join their core engineering team working on a national-scale emergency response dispatch platform used across mobile and web...
Senior Python Developer (Django) (CPT Hybrid)
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Senior Python Developer (Django) (CPT Hybrid) – Western Cape Bellville
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