Healthcare, transport reimagined with 4IR

Healthcare, transport reimagined with 4IR

Imagine a world in which doctors will be able to predict illness, and really offer healthcare, as opposed to the “sick care” that they provide today; or a future in which your self-driving car could be despatched to collect groceries or pick up children from school...
Ransomware flourishes with crypto

Ransomware flourishes with crypto

When City Power announced that a ransomware attack left Joburg residents unable to buy electricity, it highlighted the debilitating effects that a cyberattack can have. The increasing frequency and voracity of cyber concerns are mirrored in Aon’s 2019 Global...
Proactivity key to effective cybersecurity

Proactivity key to effective cybersecurity

Given current threat levels, all organisations should assume that they will experience some sort of cybersecurity incident sooner or later – probably sooner. This is according to Nadia Veeran-Patel, manager: cyber resilience at ContinuitySA, who says: “Plan for...

How partners can help fix broken IT security

It would seem that IT security has reached an interesting crossroads: despite a proliferation of investment, only a quarter of business leaders across Europe, Middle East and Africa are confident in their current cyber security, and less than a fifth are confident in...

Stay secure in Cyber Security Awareness Month

It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month and this year’s overarching message – Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT. – will focus on key areas including citizen privacy, consumer devices, and e-commerce security. To help users out this Cyber Security Awareness Month, Anna...

Ingram Micro to wind down SA business

Ingram Micro is changing its operating model in the South African market. The company says the relatively small size of its operations and the limited number of product lines available have impacted the company’s ability to expand its offerings within the country,...

DCC is Symantec’s distributor of the year

Drive Control Corporation (DCC) walked away with three distribution accolades at the Symantec Partner Engage event. DCC won Symantec Distributor of the Year, Christelle Kotze was awarded Symantec Distribution Support Person of the Year, and Bradley Mangan won Symantec...

Orange Business Services strikes ‘gold’ in SA

Orange Business Services in South Africa has taken its partnership with Genesys to the next level, with the award of ‘Gold PureCloud Partnership’ status, building on the business’s Gold status in EMEA and its global expertise in cloud and managed contact centre...