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7 tips for improving IT resilience in the digital era

In today’s IT world, resiliency means having the ability to deal with disruption without business interruption — all while delivering the experience users have come to expect from their tech.

11 Jul 2022 9 mins
IT Strategy Risk Management
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Unknown unknowns: CIOs prep for the next major business disruption

The pandemic has motivated IT leaders to rethink their approach to business continuity to ensure organizational resilience in the face of any future business existential event.

5 Jul 2022 14 mins
Business Continuity IT Leadership
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IT leaders rethink the people part of business continuity

In an era of increasingly dispersed workforces, CIOs are grappling with how to help IT staff in peril — and keep the business moving forward when events disrupt employees’ ability to work.

20 Jun 2022 11 mins
Business Continuity IT Leadership IT Management
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What Africa stands to gain with the BT and MTN partnership

Across all regions, Africa is progressing steadily in the digital age, but the timing of a strategic alliance between two telecoms giants comes at a critical time to address a greater standard of security.

14 Jun 2022 5 mins
Cloud Security Cybercrime ICT Partners
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Examining Africa’s imperative to strengthen cyber defences

Defining and achieving data sovereignty goes beyond simply storing data within borders—it requires a comprehensive approach to security, privacy, and interoperability

12 Mar 2025 8 mins
Cloud Computing Cloud Management Cloud Security
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Examining Africa’s imperative to strengthen cyber defences

With threats increasing, speakers at ITWebu2019s 17th Security Summit in Cape Town stressed community cohesion to better combat bad actors.

13 Jun 2022 7 mins
Cybercrime Data and Information Security
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5 challenges for securing the future

Everyone has a role in cybersecurity today; working together to address these challenges will materially reduce risk.

2 Jun 2022 5 mins
Security Security Practices
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6 African tech companies transforming the KYC landscape

KYC (Know Your Customer) protocols are difficult to follow in Africa, where much of the population does not have official forms of ID. These KYC tech companies are working to change that.

4 May 2022 7 mins
Identity Management Solutions Startups
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Sandbox AQ CEO: Enterprises must prep for quantum threats

The Google spin-offu2019s CEO Jack Hidary talked with CIO.com about Sandbox AQu2019s plans for developing enterprise software based on AI and quantum tech and what CIOs should expect from a post-RSA future.

4 May 2022 13 mins
Data and Information Security Quantum Computing Technology Industry
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South Africa businesses up security spending but still don’t feel secure

South African businesses may be investing more in cybersecurity when compared with the industry average but most of these businesses donu2019t feel fully protected by their current strategy, according to a new poll.

2 May 2022 4 mins
Security
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European cloud project Gaia-X is stuck in the concept stage

The European cloud project Gaia-X launched in 2019 with great fanfare. However, for Volker Pfirsching, partner at Arthur D. Little, the project is so far more an idea than a concrete plan.

22 Apr 2022 13 mins
Cloud Management Privacy