Lessons from the Ashley Madison hack

Jul 27, 2015

The traditional approach to security is no longer acceptable and many companies are not shifting their policies and protection quickly enough to deal with the fast-evolving security threats, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. The Ashley Madison hack this week has proven to be yet another example of businesses being unprepared for cyber security attacks.

Lessons from the mobile continent

Mar 24, 2015

Kathy Gibson at the IDC CIO Summit, Sandton – Africa is seeing massive growth – and the continent is also leading the way in many mobile deployments. Mark Walker, associate vice-president: sub-Saharan Africa at IDC, says Africa is a healthy market for mobility; but...

Lessons learnt from digital success stories

Sep 11, 2014

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium – Digitalisation is already impacting businesses, and it’s crucial that CIOs have an understanding of how technology will fundamentally change business models, add value and drive revenue. Gartner’s Lee Weldon points...

Lessons from successful entrepreneurs

Jul 18, 2014

It’s a rare entrepreneur who sets out to build a business based on billing more efficiently than the competition – but for Brian Timperley and Louis Jardim of Turrito Networks, streamlined billing turned out to be one of the unexpected factors behind their...

A local perspective on online classifieds

Jun 10, 2014

Felix Erken, MD of Junk Mail Classifieds, looks at the local lessons learned in the online classified space. In the more than 25 years that I have spent doing business, and more particularly in my time at Junk Mail, I have learnt that South Africans are not easily...