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New “neo bank” integrates invoicing and payroll services
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2022 Predictions: 5 Cybersecurity trends we’ll see this year
“Unprecedented” is a word that defined 2020 and 2021. Once the pandemic hit, we saw a record number of businesses implement work-from-home systems to ensure business continuity, remotely and online. With this rise in digital transformation, we’ve witnessed a blurring of the traditional online perimeters needing to be secured. As CrowdStrike notes, today, a company’s network can be on-site, in the cloud, or a hybrid of both, with resources and staff spread across locations. This presents a cybersecurity challenge, giving way to a dramatic increase in exploits. Suddenly, “once-in-a-decade” breaches of the past are now happening monthly, with a laundry list of companies falling victim. This proliferation of cyber-attacks has catapulted the zero-trust security framework into the limelight. Zer...
Five ways to prevent payments fraud in your business
Ryan Mer, CEO at eftsure Africa The social and economic impact of Covid-19 has led to a marked increase in opportunistic crimes of desperation, particularly in digital payments fraud as consumers flock to digital channels to replace or supplement in-person interactions. This rapid shift to digital, which is providing necessary solutions during a time of crisis, is fuelling a surge in payments fraud worldwide. And the threat to companies isn’t only coming from the outside; internal fraud in departments responsible for supplier payments is on the rise, especially with staff working remotely. Ryan Mer, CEO at eftsure Africa, a Know Your Payee™ (KYP) platform provider says that while the amount of business transactions taking place online is constantly growing and remote working has bec...
Power generation turns to predictive analytics to reduce risk and optimize reliability
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Account-to-Account set to transform payments landscape
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Top 5 home automation trends in 2022
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Increasing cybercrime threats daily mean no one is immune
Steve Flynn, Sales and Marketing Director for ESET Southern Africa Increasing cyber security threats are throttling businesses and holding citizens to ransom. The rapid shift to full remote working and accelerated digital transformation has left many organisations and end-users vulnerable to a new wave of sophisticated online security threats. A lack of adequate protection and a shortage of cyber security experts globally has created an environment for cybercrime to flourish. Steve Flynn, Sales and Marketing Director for ESET Southern Africa, says that immediately implementing adequate and proactive threat protection solutions is required. “Threat protection can feel like a massive undertaking which requires long development and implementation times, or for the end-users, something that th...
South Africa’s Orderin raises $4.7mn
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How a common network security technology stack aligns IT & Cybersecurity
There’s no question that ensuring enterprise network security is becoming increasingly difficult for IT and security teams. In the first half of 2021, cyberattackers launched 5.4 million distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks—an 11 percent increase from the year before. And cyberattacks equate to big paydays for attackers. In just the first half of 2021, one ransomware group collected $100 million in payments. The money gleaned from those attacks is then used to buy more expensive attack tools that can be used to further overwhelm enterprise IT and security teams. Given the increase in attacks and the added stress they create for enterprises, the solution often is to add new security tools to address the biggest pain points of the moment. But that strategy creates additiona...
Important factors to consider while building a business intelligence programme for your organisation
Hyther Nizam, President – MEA, Zoho Corp With digital transformation picking up faster than ever before in the business landscape, most organisations today employ a mix of business tools to run their operations across sales, marketing, finance, HR, etc. More often than not, all of these tools include a reporting module that displays department-specific data records and statements. However, stand-alone data like sales figures, lead numbers, email open rates, and the like, can only tell you so much about customer behaviour. As businesses continue to go digital and become increasingly data-driven, it’s imperative for them to include a holistic business intelligence (BI) programme in their technology strategy. A comprehensive BI programme helps combine various data points from multiple s...
Infinet Wireless PtP solutions used to interconnect the Coca-Cola Bottling Company offices in Egypt
Infinet Wireless, the global vendor of industry-leading fixed wireless broadband connectivity solutions, helped Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt to proficiently interconnect its offices, having provided the reliability and steadiness of the links. The enterprise needed to interconnect 26 locations, so the Coca-Cola Bottling Company chose InfiLINK 2×2, a versatile and adaptable Point-to-Point solution, perfect for a range of applications. Infinet Wireless products caught the client’s attention because of their scalability in terms of the distance, as well as capacity, compared to competitors and taking into account the price and total cost of ownership. The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt is the largest soft drinks bottling company in the region, with more than 10,000 employees, exec...
