by Dianne Bayley | Dec 2, 2020 | Security and Legal
Security remains a consistent and ever-present challenge to the organisation today. The statistics that follow in its wake are certainly enough to keep any decision-maker awake at night. In 2020, Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report found that 94% of malware...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 2, 2020 | Security and Legal
The Competition Commissioner during the Commission’s Annual Conference (in November 2020), noted that the Commission will take a “decisive and proactive stance to ensure the balance of economic forces favour a shift to facilitating entry and a more...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 1, 2020 | Workplace 2020
Connecting with like-minded people to broaden our parameters of success is an age-old practice, writes *Annelize van Rensburg, Director at Signium Africa. Now, though, we’re navigating unprecedented times – which call for new ways to engage in building robust business...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 1, 2020 | Sustainability
In the devastating wake of the global pandemic, companies across industries are grappling with the economic impact – and few more so than the embattled retail sector, writes Allan Dickson, Independent Chairman at redPanda Software. Without a doubt, ‘making the...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 1, 2020 | Innovation
Blockchain’s distributed-ledger functionality lets multiple users verify information, helping to ensure the integrity of records and transactions. But just as blockchain can be used to verify Bitcoin transaction records, it can also ensure that medicines are delivered...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 1, 2020 | Features
When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A71 and Galaxy A51 to the Galaxy A Series family, they added even more reasons for South Africans to experience innovation for all. Built to bring meaningful and awesome mobile experiences to everyone, the Galaxy A71 and Galaxy A51...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2020 | Featured Articles
Businesses that have taken steps to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation passed by the EU will also have to be compliant with South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act by July 2021. Compliance with one, does not ensure compliance with the...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2020 | Sustainability
Few would have predicted that the first year of the third decade of the millennium would be turned on its head by a global pandemic. What was to be ‘twenty plenty’ became an anomaly with events that went beyond the realm of normal expectations and changed the way we...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2020 | Security and Legal
In June, the US Secret Service issued a security alert warning about an increase in hacks of managed service providers (MSPs), write Jurgen Sorton, Head of IT – MIT and Barry Kemp, Head of IaaS at Vox . Almost a year earlier, media reports highlighted what was...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2020 | Sustainability
While traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers attempt to navigate their way out of the Coronavirus pandemic, local online retailers are seeing a massive spike in sales, as the shift from real to virtual goes into overdrive. But, what’s next for the retail industry,...
