IITPSA SIGCyber experts call for governance-first approach as Shadow AI becomes a business reality
Organisations should move beyond trying to eliminate Shadow AI and instead focus on governance, visibility and employee education to reduce cyber risk while enabling responsible AI adoption. This is...
SA’s financial services industry: protecting the talent pipeline crucial in the age of AI
Traditional graduate training model under historic pressure
South Africa’s financial sector has long served as a vital gateway for young talent. Banks, insurers, and investment firms have traditionally absorbed the...
Microsoft introduces Project Perception – a new agentic security system designed for the realities of AI
The rules of cybersecurity are changing as AI-powered attackers operate at machine speed, increasing the scale, complexity, and efficiency of cyber threats. To keep pace, organisations require a new...
Johannesburg manufacturer launches one of South Africa’s first AI wallpaper visualisers
Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the way people shop, design and make decisions. Now, it is entering South Africa’s wallpaper industry.
Johannesburg-based manufacturer Wallpaper Online has launched what is believed...
SAS: For agentic AI ROI, invest in human judgment
As enterprises move from AI experimentation to agentic AI systems that can take action across workflows, SAS leaders say the next test of AI ROI will be whether organisations...
Young South Africans design the future – one AI-Powered sneaker at a time
Recently more than 30 schools gathered at the Amazon Think Big Space in Cape Town for the Amazon Think Big Community Challenge - a global initiative, in partnership with...
AI is compressing cyberattack timelines and targeting ungoverned AI identities, Sophos AI Security report finds
Sophos today released its AI Security 2026 Report, finding that attackers are operationalizing artificial intelligence (AI) to collapse attack workflows from weeks to days. The report finds that AI’s most immediate...
Connectivity as infrastructure: Building networks for technology and revenue growth
Connectivity is becoming more than just a utility priced purely on data volume. In 2026, its story is changing, moving away from the concept of network access as a...
Corruption may just get more expensive: What the PRECCA Amendment Bill means for you
South Africa has been fighting corruption with legislation that, frankly, lacked teeth. The Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act 12 of 2004 (PRECCA) has long been the cornerstone...
Kaspersky warns of a phishing campaign abusing Microsoft authentication mechanism
Kaspersky has released a report about a phishing campaign where attackers abuse Microsoft’s authentication mechanism. The campaign spanned from early April to mid-May 2026 and was styled as a notice from a...
Your transformation dashboard is green. So why has nothing changed?
It is Monday morning, and the programme steering committee is reviewing another transformation update. The milestones are on track, training has been completed, communications have gone out, system performance...
The business case for GenAI is no longer theoretical
A few years ago, many boardroom discussions about Generative AI (GenAI) centred on possibility. Today, those conversations are becoming far more practical. Business leaders are asking tougher questions: Where...
