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Privacy checks are seen as inadequate
The perceived level of maturity attached to organisations' privacy activities has decreased since 2011, as many organisations deem their existing privacy activities to be inadequate, according to a survey by Gartner. The survey found that 43% of organisations have a...
Security needs to be cross-organisational
The Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) argues in a new report that information security needs to become a cross-organisational function, with security functions embedded into business processes, and security teams working closely with business units on...
Kaspersky uncovers new threats
Kaspersky Lab’s security research team has published a new research paper on the discovery of “Icefog”, a small yet energetic APT group that focuses on targets in South Korea and Japan, hitting the supply chain for western companies. The operation started in 2011 and...
AxizWorkgroup distributes Acer servers
Acer has announced AxizWorkgroup has been appointed as the sole distributor for Acer Altos servers. “Acer is pleased to be partnering with one of sub-Saharan Africa’s premier hardware distributors which will allow Acer Altos server products to form part of a flagship...
Better workflow could make voters happy
Governments around the world are aware their document processes are inefficient, yet fixing them is not a priority, especially in this period of austerity. Government agencies as a result, however, are missing substantial opportunities to save money, better serve...
So you want to be a global CEO?
Wits University has emerged as the best place to study in Africa if you have aspirations of becoming a global CEO. Wits was announced as being positioned among the world top 100 universities, coming in at number 24, in a new ranking published by the Times Higher...
SA student in networking top three
A student from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) School of Information and Communication Technology in Port Elizabeth was placed third in the Africa region of the Cisco Certified Network Associate NetRiders competition. The annual Cisco NetRiders...
Trojans dominate malware-intensive Q2
Malware creation reached record levels during the second quarter of the year, with Trojans continuing to account for most infections. This is according to Panda Security’s quarterly report, which also shows an increase in malware targeting the Android platform....
Powertech wins R350m substation deal
Powertech Transformers, a subsidiary of Powertech and the Altron Group, has received the majority share of the miniature substation contract from Eskom to the value of approximately R350-million. The contract, which covers a two year period from August 2013 to July...
Cisco release boosts convergence
With Internet traffic rapidly growing amid new waves of cloud, mobile, video and machine-to-machine applications, Cisco introduced the Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS), a network fabric family designed to serve as the foundation of a massively-scalable, smarter...
XON, Procera Networks establish partnership
XON has cemented a partnership agreement with Procera Networks, the global Internet intelligence company, to distribute, implement, and support the OEM vendor’s intelligent policy enforcement (IPE) PacketLogic products that provide actionable network intelligence and...
Curiosity finds water on Mars
The first scoop of soil analysed by the analytical suite in the belly of NASA's Curiosity rover reveals that fine materials on the surface of the planet contain several percent water by weight. The results were published today in Science as one article in a five-paper...
Cybercrime leads directly to job losses
Cybercrime costs the US economy at least $100-billion a year, equating to a loss of 508 000 US jobs, according to a new study, Estimating the Cost of Cybercrime and Cyber Espionage. After years of guesswork and innumerable attempts to quantify the costly effects of...
Privacy checks are seen as inadequate
The perceived level of maturity attached to organisations' privacy activities has decreased since 2011, as many organisations deem their existing privacy activities to be inadequate, according to a survey by Gartner. The survey found that 43% of organisations have a...
Security needs to be cross-organisational
The Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) argues in a new report that information security needs to become a cross-organisational function, with security functions embedded into business processes, and security teams working closely with business units on...
Kaspersky uncovers new threats
Kaspersky Lab’s security research team has published a new research paper on the discovery of “Icefog”, a small yet energetic APT group that focuses on targets in South Korea and Japan, hitting the supply chain for western companies. The operation started in 2011 and...
AxizWorkgroup distributes Acer servers
Acer has announced AxizWorkgroup has been appointed as the sole distributor for Acer Altos servers. “Acer is pleased to be partnering with one of sub-Saharan Africa’s premier hardware distributors which will allow Acer Altos server products to form part of a flagship...
Better workflow could make voters happy
Governments around the world are aware their document processes are inefficient, yet fixing them is not a priority, especially in this period of austerity. Government agencies as a result, however, are missing substantial opportunities to save money, better serve...
So you want to be a global CEO?
Wits University has emerged as the best place to study in Africa if you have aspirations of becoming a global CEO. Wits was announced as being positioned among the world top 100 universities, coming in at number 24, in a new ranking published by the Times Higher...
SA student in networking top three
A student from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) School of Information and Communication Technology in Port Elizabeth was placed third in the Africa region of the Cisco Certified Network Associate NetRiders competition. The annual Cisco NetRiders...