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Why threat actors continue to rely on cyber fraud
By Aamir Lakhani While 2020 has come and gone, many of last year’s cyber fraud problems will continue into at least mid-2021. Cybercriminals will focus on maximizing their profits, using a traditional cost-benefit analysis to decide on the best attack vector....
Should you ditch your business phone for Zoom or Teams?
By Nic Laschinger, CTO, Euphoria Telecom Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) provider Zoom launched Zoom Phone in South Africa last year, having launched it in 2019 in limited markets. Following on from the launch of Skype for Business in 2015, and Microsoft...
How technology enables better healthcare
By Fatima Khota, Category Head POS, Rectron The future of healthcare is shaping up in front of our very eyes with advances in digital healthcare technologies, such as artificial intelligence, 3D-printing, robotics and inventory management. With the need for digital...
Why the switch to smart video requires more dynamic data storage
By Brian Mallari, director of product marketing, Smart Video, Western Digital. According to Omdia Research, over 116 million network cameras were shipped in the professional surveillance market in 2019, with the capability to generate almost 9 petabytes of video every...
Diversity is the Key to Unlocking Creativity
By Zubeida Goolam, Chief Creative Officer at Valiant Humans create ideas and technology helps us share them. Finding a team that can marry the two, will give any brand a competitive edge. The human behind the tech always has to ensure that their ideas are culturally...
Accelerating trends and 5G for network performance and security
By Doros Hadjizenonos, Organisations have long been cautioned against the dangers of a piecemeal security approach that can leave gaps in protection. They have also been warned that a lack of a comprehensive, coherent digital transformation strategy with an integrated...
Online learning has the power to shift education in SA
South African schools reopened in February to welcome pupils to the new academic year, amid concerns for the safety of children and teachers as we continue to fight the second wave of COVID-19 infections. Thankfully, the roll-out of fibre networks across the country...
Deriving value for safe, smart cities
By Leona Mentz, Regional Operations Manager, Asia, Middle East and Africa at BT The mobile revolution in Africa has had a powerful impact on job creation and community development. Now, off the back of this technological leap forward, countries are beginning to make...
How to create an intelligent enterprise that future proofs business
The drive towards digital transformation and the adoption of new IT methods, tools and technologies is a business critical move to build an intelligent enterprise which will stand above the competition and succeed as the enterprise of tomorrow. Intelligent Enterprises...
Resilience and continuity: Guiding the CIO strategy in 2021
Following a tumultuous 2020, CIOs are likely to face a tough, albeit slightly more predicable 2021. Fikile Sibiya, CIO of e4 shares her view on the current state of play and what a roadmap for 2021 might entail.