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POPIA: Dark cloud or ray of sunshine?

Nov 23, 2020

While South African businesses have had the opportunity to mull over the various sections and regulations contained in the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) bill since 2013, the signing of it into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa in June this year meant they...

Dealing with personal information in the POPIA era

Nov 23, 2020

It is incumbent upon organisations to take control of the manner in which personal information is disposed of and to ensure that appropriate mechanisms within the organisation are established to address potential risks. By Marco Schepers, director: corporate, mergers...

POPIA: what employers need to know

Nov 23, 2020

POPIA places several obligations on employers in terms of managing employees personal information; it also gives certain rights to privacy to employees, write Kirsten Eiser, partner, and Shane Johnson, professional support lawyer at Webber Wentzel Employers need to be...

Step-up IT security for compliance

Nov 23, 2020

Email security, archiving, and data loss prevention should be high on the agenda for South African companies with the Protection of Public Information Act (POPIA) having commenced on 1 July 2020. Companies now have less than a year to get fully compliant, says Michael...

Pandemic puts pressure on supply chains to change

Nov 2, 2020

Kathy Gibson reports – During the Covid-19 crisis, people who don’t normally think too deeply about supply chains quickly learned how important they are. “We all became supply chain experts,” says Richard Wilding, professor at Cranfield School of Management,...

How e-mail helped NetFlorist pivot and innovate

Oct 30, 2020

As South Africa’s largest same-day gift and flower delivery e-commerce provider, NetFlorist is arguably one of the country’s most innovative – and beloved – homegrown brands. With a large and highly loyal base of customers, the company has been able to respond to user...

Digital transformation benefits SA businesses

Oct 30, 2020

Most South African businesses that want to stay competitive in the current market are looking for solutions to save on costs, reduce risk, ensure employee satisfaction, and deliver exceptional customer service. New operating models, technology and process...

Why small towns and villages are good places to open businesses

Oct 30, 2020

For a while now, tech companies and workers have been eyeing smaller cities to escape the exorbitant real estate costs, manic lifestyles, and endless traffic jams in traditional tech hubs. By Andrew Bourne, region manager: Africa at Zoho Corporation The time is ripe...

Cyber security has to be a C-Level priority

Oct 30, 2020

The importance of an integrated IT security strategy is steadily increasing, especially in current pandemic times. The accelerated digitalization in almost all areas of life has broadened the scope of possible attacks by hackers. With isolated bottom-up projects, it...

How scammers hook SMEs

Oct 30, 2020

Online scammers are forever trying to trick not only unsuspecting users, but also company employees. Sure, it is usually far harder to dupe a business than a retiree, but the potential rate of return is far higher in the former case. Therefore, attempts to get SMes to...

Everything you need to know about CEO fraud

Oct 30, 2020

CEO fraud – also called business email compromise (BEC) – is a scam in which cybercriminals spoof company email accounts and impersonate executives to try and fool an employee in accounting or HR into executing unauthorised wire transfers, or sending out confidential...

The changing landscape of high-speed connectivity

Oct 22, 2020

Internet access has come a long way from the R28 000 it cost for a 256kbps connection in 1995. By Shane Chorley, head of sales and marketing at Frogfoot Even prior to the lockdown, almost 500 000 homes and more than 114, 00 business premises were connected to fibre...

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