by Dianne Bayley | Mar 28, 2020 | Sustainability
South Africa’s already strained economy and infrastructure got dealt a severe blow on Sunday with government declaring a national state of disaster to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the country, notes Jacques du Toit, CEO, Vox. From schools shutting down to a ban on...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 26, 2020 | Security and Legal
“Anyone who has ever taken someone to a hospital, or called an ambulance or paramedic, will know that these entities need a fair amount of information about a patient. Smart phones and personal devices are great places to keep this data – but what if...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 23, 2020 | Innovation
As we find ourselves in what we at Accenture refer to as the post-digital era in our latest Tech Vision 2020 report, we foresee radical transformation over the next five years, as businesses will have to continuously embed technology to reshape the way people live,...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 18, 2020 | Security and Legal
With Covid-19 declared a global pandemic, the potential impact on a party’s ability to perform in terms of a contract is far-reaching, write Michael Straeuli, Damian Wright & Dominic Harris, Dispute Resolution Specialists at Webber Wentzel. Uncontrollable...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 11, 2020 | Security and Legal
IBM’s 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report, compiled by the Ponemon Institute, confirms that the key contributing factor to the cost of a data breach is time – time to detect and time to respond, writes Lukas van der Merwe, Specialist Sales Executive: Security, T-Systems...