How to improve employee misconduct reporting
As chief compliance officers (CCOs) continue to face challenges in restoring employee misconduct reporting to pre-pandemic levels, there are three strategies they should implement to increase confidence in their processes among employees, according to Gartner. "There...
NHS Trusts roll out AI platform
A consortium of 10 National Health Service Trusts -- the publicly funded healthcare system in England -- is now deploying the MONAI-based AIDE platform across four of its hospitals, providing AI-enabled disease-detection tools to healthcare professionals serving...
Astronomers spot a black hole jet pointing to Earth
Astronomers have determined the source of an incredibly bright X-ray, optical and radio signal appearing from halfway across the universe. The signal, named AT 2022cmc, was discovered earlier this year by the Zwicky Transient Facility in California. Findings published...
Archive files move into the malware delivery lead
Archive file formats - such as ZIP and RAR files - have become the most common file type for delivering malware, surpassing Office files for the first time in three years. This is according to the latest HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report. Based on data from...
Crypto miners on the rise
In Q3 2022, Kaspersky researchers saw a sharp increase in crypto miner variants - an overall growth of over 230% compared to the same period last year. The number is three times more than in the third quarter of 2021 and now exceeds 150 000. Of all corporate users...
ICT skills development critical for SA
ICT skills development is critical for South Africa to participate in the fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and reap the benefits of a digital economy. This was the consensus of various speakers at Huawei South Africa's ICT Talent Development annual awards ceremony...
Bumper spend for online sales this Black Friday
This year marked the return of the Black Friday bumper spend as midnight and intra-day deals exceeded the 2021 figures. Online sales emerged as the clear winner, tracking significantly higher growth. Recording transactions processed on behalf of South Africa's banks,...
Big growth in Black Friday and Cyber Monday spend
South Africans showed they still have an appetite for retail spend, with data from omnichannel payment solutions provider Ecentric Payment System's 2022 Black Friday Payment Gateway Dashboard showing big increases in both transactions volume and value, when compared...
Meet top young scientists at the Eskom Expo Finals
South Africa's top young researchers and innovators will have the opportunity to showcase their scientific brilliance at the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists' premier event - the annual International Science Fair (ISF) - which will be held physically for the first time...
Business continuity requires a holistic approach to resilience
A massive 86% of EMEA businesses have a protection gap between how much data they can afford to lose after an outage and how frequently data is backed up, and 84% plan to increase their data protection budgets this year By Chris Norton, regional director for Africa at...
Why virtual agents make sense to customers and the FD
When it first became clear that various AI-enabled tools would play an important role in customer self-service, most prominently in the shape of chatbots, there was a lot of hope that they'd have a positive impact on company finances. Not only would they provide a...
Load shedding casts a dark shadow over the festive season for retailers
Record levels of load shedding have sliced an estimated R122-billion off potential South African retail sales in 2022, with retailers expected to ring up R1,24-trillion in sales for the full year. Without frequent rolling blackouts, retail sales would have been...