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SA’s financial sector suffers highest losses from data breaches

Nov 19, 2023

IBM Security has released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, showing the average data breach cost for South African organizations reached R49,45-million in 2023 – an all-time high for the report. This represents an 8% increase over the last three years and a 73%...

Selling the cloud demands a new type of salesperson

Nov 19, 2023

The traditional sales model – sell them on the benefits, close the sale, deliver the product – is outdated in the digital world. Modern salespeople require different skills and far greater knowledge to sell the cloud, writes Andrew Cruise, MD of Routed....

Fight fraud without impacting customer experience

Oct 27, 2023

By Mark Wells – The continual growth in online fraud has led to a shift in financial services and telecommunications business priorities. Experian’s latest research report shows that nearly three in four senior decision-makers are now prioritising investments to...

Businesses are losing the battle of the endpoint

Oct 27, 2023

By Ofir Israel – From a time when businesses were essentially static entities, and employees worked from within the confines of offices, we have now moved into an age of almost complete diffusion. The rise in digital nomads means business can be conducted...

Partners don’t have to be alone on the cloud journey

Oct 27, 2023

As more end user customers consider a move to cloud computing, reseller partners are having to gear themselves up to be trusted advisors and competent cloud service providers. But moving from a traditional transactional partnering model to an annuity-based cloud model...

Cloud could be a new dawn for SA’s businesses

Oct 27, 2023

It’s cloudy out there. Cloud-native, public cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud strategy and cloud-shaped ingenuity, so why is South Africa not following in the global footsteps of adoption. Public cloud end-user spend is anticipated to reach $600 billion by the...

AMD shares tech behind confidential computing in the cloud

Oct 27, 2023

AMD has published the source code for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualisation (SEV) technology, the backbone of AMD EPYC processor-based confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) available from cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud,...

PMT™ expands Emerald value-added service platform into the cloud

Oct 23, 2023

Pattern Matched Technologies™ (PMT) will be making its Emerald™ Realtime value-added service distribution platform available to customers in Africa as a cloud-based service. The solutions developer is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and First Distribution...

There’s more to the skills shortage than emigration

Oct 9, 2023

By Richard Firth – Corporate South Africa has been talking about – and worried about – a “brain drain” resulting from the emigration of skilled individuals for over 20 years. Anecdotal evidence seems to suggest this remains a serious concern, and we regularly...

Critical gaps in identity threat protection exposed

Oct 9, 2023

The identity attack surface is the most significant gap in cybersecurity resilience today with existing solutions like multi-factor authentication (MFA) and privileged access management (PAM) leaving critical exposures and allowing for the malicious use of compromised...

Worldwide security appliance sales up 7,6%

Oct 9, 2023

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, total market revenue in the overall security appliance market grew 7,6% year over year in the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23) to more than $4,2-billion. This represents...

Syntech adds Norton security

Oct 9, 2023

Syntech has been appointed as a distribution partner for Norton security products, and will offer these solutions through the channel, online and via its retail partners. According to Simon Campbell-Young, co-founder of Norton master distributor Digimune, the...

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