Keep risk resolution top of mind
Managing risk and promoting safety is paramount in engineering practice. Alvin Dye, regional construction head at Marsh Africa's construction division explains how successful projects are not selected but shaped with risk resolution in mind. Risks are multidimensional...
Decision Inc. helps mining organisations manage risk
Decision Inc., an information advisory, execution and enablement firm, has designed a document management accelerator specifically tailored for the intense regulatory demands of the mining industry. The Accelerator represents a substantial step forward for governance...
EMC-RSA features in Gartner Magic Quadrant
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, has announced that Gartner has placed RSA Archer in the Leaders Quadrant for operational risk management. The report, published at the end of last year, is the first of several reports that will be published by Gartner in the coming...
Managing risk in the pharmaceutical industry
As part of managing its reputation, an organisation needs to have a continuous process that supports internal changes and decisions and allows it to respond well to external changes - especially those emerging stakeholder concerns that can affect its reputation. In...
Mobile identity, access management ensure security
As the world has evolved to become increasingly digital and globally connected, ICT security has become correspondingly more complex, according to Rory Young, portfolio manager: support & enabling services at T-Systems South Africa. With digital pathways into and...
Risk management integral to availability
In the always-on environment, CIOs are under increased pressure to deliver solutions that facilitate round the clock access to data and services. However, they need to remain mindful of managing the inherent risk of introducing cloud and virtualisation services, says...
Time to rethink e-waste strategy
Not only is the introduction of mandatory protection of personal data a huge challenge for companies, but now organisations are being prompted to rethink how they approach the reuse, recycling or recovery of their e-waste. Xperien suggests the new Protection of...
Detect mountain fires before they become disasters
Remote video alarm monitoring and management specialist TeleEye SA has developed a mountain fire detection solution that can detect a fire as small as one square metre from up to five kilometres away. The solution uses state-of-the-art Flir Systems thermal imaging...
Your personal information may not be as private as you think
Even when you think you're being careful with your personal information, you could be at risk. Vince Resente, enterprise technology specialist at Intel, shows how it happens. You're watching your son play a school soccer match. Your camera is ready when he scores the...
Protect against the R1bn threat of ID fraud
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa need to put robust processes and systems in place if they are to protect themselves against rising incidences of identity theft and other forms of fraud. That's according to Donovan Marais, channel manager of Sage...
How to manage organisational risk
Organisational risk can be reduced to two base constituents: loss or diminished profit, and loss of stability. Similarly, for any tool or technology to be valuable, it must do two of three things - improve profit, reduce loss or improve the risk against loss, and...
Securing your most valuable assets
It has long been said that a businesses’ most valuable asset is its information. When appropriately harnessed, data translates into actionable information into a plethora of things a company can benefit from, including which products are moving the fastest, what...