Your saved password could be part of SA’s ransomware problem
A ransom note is the last thing an attacker leaves on a South African network - and before it appears, someone has usually signed in with a stolen password or got in through a router that missed its updates. The attacker likely spent days or weeks finding the data...
Worldwide insolvencies on the rise, but SA resilience bucks trend
Global business insolvencies will rise by 5% in 2026 and 1% in 2027 (6% in 2025) - marking five consecutive years of increases - according to Allianz Trade’s latest Insolvency Report. Given the uncertain geopolitical and macroeconomic environment, the peak in...
Three actions HR must take to realise growth from AI
Three-quarters of board members expect AI will deliver value in the form of productivity and cost savings, however, 97% of organisations are unable to achieve desired cost savings through productivity alone, according to Gartner. “Thirty-eight percent of companies are...
Cyber resilience key for protecting business data
Kathy Gibson reports from Synology Open Day in Cape Town – Cyber resilience is the new buzzword in the enterprise space, with cybersecurity joining backup and restore to fully protect business data on all fronts. Mirian Lin, account manager at Synology, explains that...
Turn images into valuable business assets
Kathy Gibson reports from Synology Open Day in Cape Town – Consider for a moment how many images you come into contact with every day. They could be photographs, security camera stills, business cards, PDFs of documents, and more. Sure, the company stores them – but...
Payment processing should optimise in-store profit
Payments are still mostly seen as a budget line item by most retailers. It’s a necessary annoyance that needs to be negotiated with a bank or provider and a set of terminals that needs to be as cost-effective as possible. But this misses an incredible opportunity...
What your email gateway may not be seeing
I do not think most organisations are ignoring email security, writes Michael Currie, director at The Cloud Crew. They have filters, policies, awareness training, endpoint protection, and often a secure email gateway that has been in place for years. Attackers know...
Changing compliance from onerous to excellence with AI intelligence
Compliance is challenging on multiple levels, but perhaps the most significant is scale. Once a business is processing millions of transactions, checking activity against established policies and controls, while investigating exceptions, places a considerable...
The exponential expansion of the enterprise attack surface
The risk to the business has grown significantly thanks to the widening footprint of the enterprise attack surface, writes Richard Frost, head of technology solutions and consulting at Armata Cyber Security. The enterprise risk footprint has grown exponentially. Until...
Can AI out-govern corporate politics?
Every business leader knows the invisible tax that eats away at productivity, innovation, and trust. That tax is corporate politics, and it is more corrosive than most operational problems because it hides in plain sight. By Linda Saunders, country manager and senior...
The costly cybersecurity mistake isn’t the click – it’s the silence that follows
An employee clicks on a suspicious link, realises something is wrong and decides not to tell anyone. They might be embarrassed or worried about getting into trouble. Meanwhile, the security team has no idea that something may have happened, losing valuable time to...
People will determine whether AI in the workforce works or not
Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are changing how work is done across industries. From warehouses and manufacturing environments to recruitment, administration and customer service, technology is increasingly becoming part of everyday operations. But...