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Malicious Attacks are the Most Frequent Cause of a Data Breach in South Africa
The 2017 Cost of Data Breach report also revealed that malicious or criminal attacks are the most frequent cause of a data breach in South Africa. (Image source: Specialized Security Services) The IBM...
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Secure mobile banking apps set to deliver a broader range of services
Banking apps are starting to offer a wider set of online transactional services to customers. Banking apps on mobile phones, which use sophisticated security and authentication technology, are...
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The App Transition Of Banking
Schalk Nolte, CEO of Entersekt. Banking apps on mobile phones, which use sophisticated security and authentication technology, are starting to offer a wider set of online transactional services to...
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Top 10 African Domain Name Systems Ranked
Africa's Domain Name Systems Ranked In what can simply be described as the Internet's equivalent of a phone book, Domain Name System (DNS) exists to maintain a directory of domain names and translate...
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Petya attack points to alarming trend in cybercrime
The latest massive cyberattack to hit the globe is evidence of how hackers are upping the ante, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks.(pixabay.com) Another major cyberattack named Petya...
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5 reasons to attend Healthcare Innovation Summit 2017
The Healthcare Innovation Summit will take place on 29 and 30 August at the Vodacom World in Midrand, Johannesburg. The 3rd edition of the Healthcare Innovation Summit Africa (#HISA2017) is set to...
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SDN and NFV – the building blocks of becoming a digital telco
The building blocks of African telcos Telcos in Africa are walking a fine line having to balance the needs of providing higher quality and feature rich network services while maximising return on...
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FNB banking app now free across all networks
FNB announced that customers who use its award winning banking app will no longer need data to access it via their smartphones from 1 July 2017. FNB today announced that customers who use its banking...
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Are data prices a barrier to financial inclusion in Africa?
App-based mobile banking certainly serves a purpose, but it’s a far cry from meeting the needs of the mass market. In Africa, banking the unbanked remains a pressing need. Roughly 700 million people...
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BT boosts cloud collaboration with integrated Cisco Spark
Andrew Small, vice president, unified communications and collaboration, customer relationship management and mobility at Global Services, BT. A new business collaboration service that allows teams to...
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The irresistible allure and unstoppable rise of the public cloud
The digitisation of business requires enterprises to move faster and be more agile to survive.(image: bluecoat.com) The International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that more than 80 percent of IT...
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A chance to showcase African innovation: Mastercard extends Start Path...
Applications for Start Path Global open until August 1, 2017. (Image Source: diginomica.com) Mastercard Start Path programme is making the call for additional applications from qualifying late-stage...
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10 reasons your business needs cyber liability insurance
New technology means new threats, make sure you are covered. New technology means new risks. The internet asks a lot of questions of its users. How should the internet interact with nation states?...
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Digital innovation driving growth in DRC mining sector
Satellite to play leading role in mining sector growth . (image source: Pixabay) Digital innovation is driving transformation within the local mining sector. This shift, according to leading converged...
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6 Unwritten Rules Of The Inernet
Rules you should follow when using the Internet. In today's world where millions are linked to the Internet allowing them to connect and interact with other from all over the world has raised the...
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Intelligent analytics: Use your data properly
How to make best use of your data analytics. Big data, analytics, business intelligence – these terms define a trend that has found its way into almost every business conversation. They also define...
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New Customer Engagement Cloud Solutions to Advance Digital Transformation
Managing Director of Avaya South Africa. Avaya has announced their new offering, Avaya Customer Engagement Cloud solutions, a set of advanced capabilities and services that aims to help businesses...
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Unlocking big data’s benefits with data visualisation
Big data comes with a whole lot of benefits if you can unlock them. As every marketer knows, we have more data about our customers and how they interact with our brands at our fingertips than ever...
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20% of consumers in South Africa use iOS in contrast to 74% using Android
Cost is also a factor in Apple’s iOS operating system only taking a 20% market share in the country, where 74% use Android. Ten years since the launch of iOS, a research conducted by Upstream, mobile...
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Multi-tenancy for the cloud enables economies of scale
Multi-tenancy as a key requirement (image: bluecoat.com) Multi-tenancy is an architecture where a single instance of a software application runs on a server and services multiple customers – referred...
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