by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Thought Leadership
By Chris Wright – Lately, headlines dominated by AI-driven zero-day vulnerabilities have raised a question: Is open source software becoming too risky for the enterprise? With open source comprising more than three-quarters of the average enterprise codebase,...
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By Mandy Duncan – For South African IT teams in 2026, cyber defence is akin to defending a goal line with an outdated playbook.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...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
By Warren Alberts – If you walk into any tech conference these days, the buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) is impossible to ignore. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past March, for example, the power of AI was on display wherever you went. Take...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 6, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
By Gert Haasbroek – Cloud sovereignty has become one of the most discussed topics within the technology industry, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. Much of this confusion stems from the assumption that sovereignty is guaranteed simply because data is...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 4, 2026 | news
DHL and Absa Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand DHL’s GoTrade programme across sub-Saharan Africa, formalising a strategic partnership that paves the way for the rollout of the DHL GoTrade programme across key markets in the region....
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2026 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – Artificial intelligence (AI) is more than an exciting new technology – it has the potential to be a game-changer for women entrepreneurs. Christina Naidoo, chief operating officer of Huawei SA, tells delegates at the Huawei Women in Tech...
