by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
A new survey by the South African SME Finance Association (SASFA) shows that despite the help offered by government and the private sector, only a fraction of businesses had any support. Only 47% of business owners applied for relief from government or financial...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The impact of the Covid-19 has been hard felt by businesses in the service industry. Local movements, like Million Seats on the Streets and #LightSARed, have been used to demonstrate the effect the nationwide lockdown has had on the restaurant, live entertainment,...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
If small and medium businesses had little appetite for cyber risk management before the coronavirus pandemic, they may have developed one now. Mobilising remote workforces, provisioning the right set of tools, managing the flow of data, keeping it secure and...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
As digital commerce continues to accelerate owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mastercard has announced it will offer tokenisation services to merchants with app, e-commerce, and recurring billing card-on-file program in South Africa, further protecting consumers and...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Before the outbreak of Covid-19, working remotely was a topical buzz-phrase, something many companies vaguely aspired to but didn’t really feel the need to implement in their organisation. As the pandemic worsened across the globe, forcing country after country into...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
For several months now, office spaces across South Africa have been gathering dust, void of occupants as employees have been working from home. By Garsen Naidu, country manager of Cisco South Africa While there is no telling when the pandemic will end, if the current...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | news
Global spending on artificial intelligence (AI) is forecast to double over the next four years, growing from $50,1-billion in 2020 to more than $110-billion in 2024. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | news
Covid-19 related threats were the single largest type of threat in the first half of the year. In just six months, Trend Micro blocked 8,8-million Covid-19-related threats, nearly 92% of which were email-based. Cybercriminals shifted their focus from January through...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | news
Another South African financial services company has become a cyber-attack victim. Lombard Insurance Company has admitted to its systems being breached, but details on how customers have been affected are still sketchy. Customers have been warned that their personal...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | news
Pretoria-based Etion Create has been selected as one of the preferred suppliers in the Sofia offshore wind farm project in the UK, one of the largest in the world. Etion Create, an original design manufacturer of advanced electronics equipment based in Centurion...
