by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
By Musa Masungwini – What is the cost of discovering a cyberattack only after it has reached your Security Operations Centre (SOC)? For many organisations, that cost includes operational disruption, financial losses, reputational damage and significant recovery...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Thought Leadership
By Mandy Duncan – For South African IT teams in 2026, cyber defence is akin to defending a goal line with an outdated playbook. The formations are familiar, the instincts well-rehearsed, but the opponents have levelled up their standard of play. The old ways of...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
Chief information security officers (CISOs) must rethink how they lead security, identity and innovation as AI accelerates both opportunity and disruption, says Gartner. To stay ahead, security leaders should focus on three priorities: modernising identity as...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
By 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s salary due to rising large language model (LLM) token consumption and the shift to consumption-based licensing models, according to Gartner. AI tokens are the units of data processed by generative...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
More than 70% of mainframe exit projects initiated in 2026 will fail to produce the intended benefits due to an overestimation of generative AI (GenAI) tooling capabilities, according to Gartner. “There is a widening gap between the marketing promise of GenAI and its...
