by Dianne Bayley | Aug 4, 2020 | Security and Legal
In an exclusive interview with Finbold.com, Heimdal Security Chief Executive Officer Morten Kjaersgaard has stated that cybercrime is now a profession. He pointed out that in the next year, cybercrime will be a major trend in the online security sector. He noted that...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 3, 2020 | Workplace 2020
South Africa has now been under some form of lockdown for more than three months, says Faryn Pearson, Business Head, NEXT, the corporate division of MasterStart. If we’ve learned anything in that time, it’s that there’s no going back to the way things were. In...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 3, 2020 | Sustainability
While every company will have to critically re-evaluate their 2020 tech spend, not every business is facing the same challenges. Forrester recently released some insights to help companies navigate the treacherous task of cutting tech costs in the short-term, without...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 3, 2020 | Innovation
Capitec, South Africa’s largest digital bank, has taken the final step in its paperless journey with the introduction of an eSignature capability, by means of a biometric fingerprint. In a time of COVID-19 and social distancing, this is a crucial move to ramp up...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 3, 2020 | Workplace 2020
Six months into the global Covid-19 pandemic, most organisations have settled into new, more digital ways of working and collaborating, writes Gerhard Hartman, VP, Medium Business, Sage Africa & Middle East. Even though the crisis is not yet behind us, businesses...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 3, 2020 | Innovation
Retailers have been hit hard by the current crisis, writes Eran Brown, EMEA CTO at Infinidat. IT teams supporting struggling businesses now need to switch to maintaining critical infrastructures that support home-workers and enable online models to run efficiently....
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 2, 2020 | Innovation
Organisations across the globe have had to significantly pick up the pace of their digital transformation push to ensure business continuity in the new era shaped by the global pandemic, writes Lukas van der Merwe, Specialist Sales Executive: Security, T-Systems South...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 2, 2020 | Sustainability
Online shopping is something South African consumers have had to become more familiar with recently, notes James Bayhack, Director for sub-Saharan Africa at CM.com While we’ve had eCommerce options before, locals haven’t adopted the technology as easily and quickly as...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 2, 2020 | Featured Articles
As the saying goes, don’t believe the hype. Yet, blockchain is deserving of the hype it receives. By every measure, the technology is breaking new ground. It actively offers an alternative to centralised trust-mechanisms that are often fraught with problems,...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 1, 2020 | Workplace 2020
Over the past 20 years, the human attention span has rapidly decreased from 12 seconds to eight seconds, according to a Microsoft study. A short attention span has huge implications on how effectively an individual retains information. And it impacts an organisation’s...
