Now is a good time to start a business

Whether you are looking to replace lost income due to COVID-19 or simply aiming to plug a gap in the market, serial entrepreneur, Arnoux Maré says now is the opportune time for you to start a business. By Arnoux Maré, MD of Innovative Staffing Solutions “During...

Maximise cloud value for business success

Many enterprise efforts to adopt and scale to cloud have stalled. Some organisations got stuck in an experimental mindset without a sense of where their cloud journey was headed, while others struggled to make a clear business case for scaling up their use of cloud....

Proposed regulations for content self-classification

Draft regulations to the Films and Publications Amendment Act, which lay down the conditions for acquiring permits to self-classify content, were recently published. Webber Wentzel partner Carla Collett and candidate attorney Jodi Hardy take a deeper look at them....

Security lessons we can learn from online payments

Electronic payment security has become more crucial than ever since the start of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. As shoppers stay at home and workers avoid face-to-face interactions with clients, businesses have rushed to increase their capacity to accept money online...

How well do you know the PCI DSS standard?

The saying “nothing worth having comes easy…” couldn’t be truer in the case of fortifying an organisation’s systems and infrastructure and ensuring it meets the industry standards and compliance requirements. By Simeon Tassev, MD and qualified security assessor...

Data breaches are the new industrial accidents

Data breaches are the industrial accidents of the Information Age. That’s according to the Direct Marketing Association of SA (DMASA) which says there are risks to storing the information that powers the knowledge economy, just as there are risks to stockpiling the...

Automating IT asset disposal

Telecommuting will have an enormous impact on the future of IT asset disposal (ITAD), data erasure and electronics recycling. Businesses keeping their staff at home will need to provide them with IT equipment, they will need more equipment like computers and printers....