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...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | news
Findings from a recent HP survey in EMEA found that over 97% of customers see HP’s Customer Delivery Inspections (CDIs) as a valuable service for their business, and 96% feel they protect them from falling victim to fraudsters. Customer Delivery Inspections,...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 28, 2020 | news
BeyondTrust has awarded Datacentrix the title of ‘Implementation Partner of the Year’ for the Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA) region. The announcement was made at BeyondTrust’s recent ‘Go Beyond’ virtual partner festival. “Datacentrix went to market...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 24, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
With South Africa’s unemployment rate at above 30% for Q1 2020 – and more than half of the youth estimated to be unemployed – we need to get creative about addressing our joblessness crisis. By Grant Lapping, MD of DataCore Media The Covid-19 pandemic could be the...
