by Dianne Bayley | Apr 12, 2016 | Security and Legal
It doesn’t matter how careful they are, ‘super hackers’ will leave a trace of their activities. Windows event logs, DNS logs and DHCP logs – sources not normally analysed from an attack detection perspective – all hold clues to the clandestine...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 11, 2016 | Features
By Ralph Berndt, Director, Sales and Marketing, Syrex. South African organisations must assess their security footprints to ensure they are prepared for the worst. And the worst is here – the 2015 IBM Cost of Data Breach Study found that the consolidated total cost of...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 8, 2016 | Features
By Dave Stevens, Head: Customer & Data Insights By 2050, it’s expected that nearly 80% of South Africans will be living in urban areas. This massive acceleration in rural-to-urban migration was highlighted recently by Co-operative Governance and Traditional...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 8, 2016 | Workplace 2020
By Georgina Barrick, ADvTECH Resourcing I recently came across a blog post called “Fear Cultures: Do Scared People Innovate?”, which spoke to business leaders about creating workplaces that enable all staff members to feel like they can participate in discussion and...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 6, 2016 | Features
For the first time since the dawn of e-commerce in South Africa, online retail in this country will reach 1% of overall retail during 2016. This is the most significant finding of the Online Retail in South Africa 2016 report, released on 6 April by World Wide Worx....
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 29, 2016 | Security and Legal
By Andries Kok, CFO, PayAccSys Online security breaches are becoming the order of the day, and such incidences are set to rise as the economy comes under increasing pressure. It is therefore becoming increasingly important for a business owner to take advantage of...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 29, 2016 | Features
By About Heinrich van der Vyver, founder, BOS ‘Think global, act local’ is how the saying goes. Governments have implored their citizens to favour all things local over the international, and not much has changed. The idea of a ‘home grown’...
by Kathy Gibson | Mar 29, 2016 | Report-back
CeBit is one of the world’s largest IT conferences and exhibitions, held annually in Hannover, Germany. Kathy Gibson attended this year’s event in March 2016. Survival in a data-driven world There can be no doubt that we have become a data-driven society – but the way...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 24, 2016 | Features
Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit 2016 in Hannover Huawei has launched is enterprise cloud communication solution, bringing traditional office communication and the broader world of Internet of Things devices together on a single cloud. The solution will run either...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 24, 2016 | Features
Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover, March 2016 There can be no doubt that we have become a data-driven society – but the way we do analytics today is arguably wrong, having already led to some major disasters and more on the horizon if we don’t learn to do...
