Author: Chris Anu

Ashlin Govender, DKS The South African logistics market has a mix of global giants like Imperial and DHL, mid-sized regional leaders such as Bidvest and Laser Group, and smaller, specialised local players. This last group focuses on overlooked markets, and tries to address some of the hurdles that often eat into a logistics business’ bottom line. On the day I spoke to Lars Veul, CEO and co-founder of Pargo, I’d just missed a delivery that was scheduled to arrive at some point between 9am and 5pm because I popped out to get a cup of coffee. This is one of…

Paul Stuttard, director, Duxbury Networking. Enterprise browsers are transforming the ways in which organisations secure their digital workplaces. Unlike traditional browsers that cater to individual consumers, enterprise browsers are purpose-built platforms that integrate identity, policy and data protection into the user experience.This results in a tool that gives security teams much more power over how users can sign up to SaaS platforms, web applications and cloud services.According to Michael Sentonas, president of a leading US threat intelligence and cyber attack response services provider, the rise of SaaS applications and a hybrid workforce have allowed traditional browsers to become critical attack…

Lungile Mginqi, digital transformation strategist. We convene the boardroom court: IT value is on trial; the accused is narrative − stories offered instead of evidence. The charge: theatre masquerading as business outcomes.Every year, boards approve millions in IT investment. usually with a toolset name attached. Yet the promised business value remains elusive. Too often, tools come first and value is justified later. Dashboards glow; business outcomes stay flat. Enough. Put IT value on trial: evidence first, theatre last.This isn’t about new dashboards − it’s about discipline. Every IT ask must start with a business result, not a technology. Value must…

Ethan Searle, business development director, LanDynamix. The expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) into all areas of business, technology and life generally, is advancing at an exponential pace, which has great benefits to offer but at what cost?While AI fuels innovation and adoption, this development is a double-edged sword because it also amplifies the risks around security, ethics, sustainability and more.According to Gartner, by 2027, more than 40% of AI-related data breaches will be caused by the improper use of generative AI (GenAI) across borders. The research guru goes on to explain that the lack of consistent global AI standards forces…

Junaid Hussain, head of digital services support at Ricoh South Africa. South African companies are accelerating their digital transformation. For medium to large businesses, digital transformation offers huge gains in efficiency and competitiveness, but it also brings new risks.Every move to the cloud, automation rollout or AI deployment expands the attack surface for cyber crime and data loss. Breaches can shut down operations, damage reputations and trigger regulatory penalties under laws like POPIA and GDPR. Many companies still don’t have full visibility of where their data lives or who can access it.The challenge is to modernise without opening the door…

A constant refrain in the security sector is that everything is an endpoint. If it’s connected to the internet, it’s an endpoint. Endpoints need protection and they’re often neglected. While the criminals who broke into the Louvre in broad daylight in October used prosaic methods, it turns out that the museum’s cyber policies were also in need of a dust-off. According to Libération’s investigative unit, the password to the museum’s video surveillance server was “LOUVRE”, while “THALES” got a user into the software platform. “Today’s attackers aren’t the amateurs of the old days,” says Roy Alves, national sales manager at…

Organisations are learning from experience, and are turning to AI and automation to accelerate resilience. Everyone talks about detecting and preventing cyber attacks, yet the headlines tell a different story. Prevention and detection alone aren’t enough. Even the world’s most sophisticated enterprises are suffering crippling disruptions that ripple from IT to the boardroom — and beyond. To understand why, and what separates resilient organisations from those still struggling, Cohesity drew on the insights of 3 200 IT and security operations decision-makers worldwide. The findings reveal a widening resilience divide between risk-ready organisations that can recover quickly and confidently, and their…

Lebo Masalesa, Managing Executive: Mobile Networks at Telkom. Telkom is making solid progress on its net‑zero strategy, which not only greens its network, but also builds a more resilient infrastructure that supports its universal access goals. This is according to Lebo Masalesa, Managing Executive: Mobile Networks at Telkom, who is spearheading the telco’s network modernisation programme and championing sustainability across its network infrastructure.Masalesa says Telkom’s overall strategy is data‑led, and this informs its green initiatives. This means the company places equal emphasis on providing reliable, resilient data services and on managing the impact of its operations on the environment. Telkom operates…

BBD builds the platforms businesses rely on. Most software works perfectly on the happy path. But the top software development companies know that real customers, real data and real-world complexity is where systems are truly tested. For more than four decades, BBD has helped organisations modernise legacy estates, design future-ready platforms and orchestrate processes end-to-end – not just where things run smoothly on the ideal path, but where they break, stall or fall through the cracks. Because in today’s environment, reliability isn’t defined by the 90% of cases that work. It’s defined by the 10% that don’t. That’s the work…

Dr Jannie Zaaiman, CEO of the South Africa Information and Communication Technology Association. Artificial intelligence (AI) has both the potential to drastically change the world for good, and the ability to wreak havoc like a dystopian novel in which man meets machine. It is, with apologies to Charles Dickens, both the best of times and the worst of times.Harnessed correctly, AI and its contribution to the fifth industrial revolution can be almost immeasurable. Instead of replacing people, this cutting-edge technology can serve as a cognitive partner that augments human judgement, creativity and productivity.Industry 5.0 promises harmonious machine and human collaboration…