by Kathy Gibson | Apr 24, 2018 | Security and Legal
Integrity has no expiry date. You’ve either got it or you haven’t. By Auguste Coetzer and J Michael Judin An honest, diligent company director does not become a crook on the make the moment some arbitrary term limit has been exceeded. This states the obvious. However,...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 24, 2018 | Featured Articles, Security and Legal
In April 2016, the European Union (EU) Parliament approved the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR will repeal the existing Data Protection Directive in the EU when it comes into force on 25 May 2018. By Somayya Khan, partner at Adams & Adams...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 10, 2018 | Security and Legal
By Riaan Bekker – In 1987, a London Underground ticket seller was alerted to a burning tissue on one of the escalators. They duly put it out, but didn’t report the incident. If they had, the slowly-building inferno under the station might have been discovered in...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 10, 2018 | Security and Legal
By Sanjay Vaid – A report by IDC predicts that there will be over 1,7-billion smartphone users by 2020. When added to other figures supplied by the IDC’s FutureScape: World Mobility 2017 Predictions report, IT spending on mobile is predicted to peak at 50% of...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 10, 2018 | Security and Legal
By Mike Rogers – Cyber-criminals had a banner year in 2017, with ransomware variants like WannaCry, Petya and NotPetya bringing major organisations such as National Health Service trusts in the UK, Spain’s Telefonica and the National Bank of Ukraine to their...
by Kathy Gibson | Mar 20, 2018 | Security and Legal
Cloud is coming into its own. Forrester says that public cloud platforms, business services, and applications will reach $236-billion by 2020. With cloud spending predicted to be six times that of IT spending over the same period, a cloud strategy is how companies...