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AI is driving more breaches, at an average cost of $6m

One in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled – a 56% increase over last year – and these breaches cost an average of $6-million, roughly $1-million more than the global breach average of $4,99-million. This is among the findings from IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach...

Africa must build resilience as US-China tech divide deepens

Africa’s AI choices are becoming geopolitical choices. As the US and China accelerate the development of increasingly distinct and incompatible AI technology stacks, African governments and companies can move quickly to avoid long-term dependency, technology lock-in,...

Claude has also been infiltrating systems

Anthropic has revealed that its Claude model has also gone rogue and is responsible for three cybersecurity incidents. “In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while...

AI-generated inferences will take biggest privacy toll

By 2029, most privacy incidents will result not from the direct exposure of personally identifiable information (PII), but from AI-generated inferences about individuals, according to Gartner. “There is a fundamental shift underway from data exposure to insight...

Commercial Analyst at CA Financial Appointments

Join a fast-growing team of travel professionals that specializes in building innovative travel brands and platforms. As the Commercial Analyst, you will take control of the revenue and pricing strategy for the brand's revenue streams, including the optimisation of...

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GenAI, LLMs make in impact in the contact centre

GenAI, LLMs make in impact in the contact centre

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - The alignment of broadband availability, lower computing cost, increases in speed, processing power and storage have created a perfect storm for artificial intelligence (AI) to head into the mainstream business world. Omar Javaid,...

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Data governance key to future-proof security

Data governance key to future-proof security

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - New technologies like artificial intelligence pose a cybersecurity threat - but will also be key to driving developments in data and security. Aloysius Cheang, chief security officer: Middle East and Central Asian Region at Huawei,...

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Alarming escalation in child sexual abuse online

There has been an alarming 87% increase in reported child sexual abuse material cases since 2019, according to the WeProtect Global Alliance Global Threat Assessment Report, which says there have been more than 32-million reports globally. The findings, the...

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UCT launches new biodiversity research project

A new biodiversity research project known as BioSCape, which will help researchers better understand the impact of climate change on biodiversity, was announced yesterday by the University of Cape Town. The project will link data collected from satellites and...

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Tarsus on Demand ties up distribution for AWS

Tarsus on Demand ties up distribution for AWS

Tarsus on Demand has been appointed an authorised distributor for Amazon Web Services (AWS), joining a select number of AWS distributors on the African continent looking to advance the adoption of cloud solutions and develop innovative new services and products. The...

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Riverlea students scoop Eskom Expo award

Two budding young scientists from Riverlea High School earned well-deserved accolades at the recent Eskom Expo International Science Fair (ISF) for their research project centred around the deployment of an automated watering system designed for water conservation....

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Why cloud is driving AI

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex, Dubai - Cloud computing is the basic building block that will allow artificial intelligence (AI) to flourish. That's the word from Uwem Ukpong, vice-president: global services at Amazon Web Services (AWS), who points out that CEOs are...

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