by Dianne Bayley | Aug 25, 2022 | Security and Legal
The South African payment ecosystem will need to increase cooperation if it hopes to reduce the country’s over-reliance on cash. And, while the regulator still has a big part to play in the solution, flipping the way payments are generally incentivised in favour of...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 25, 2022 | Security and Legal, Uncategorized
Many businesses in South Africa are now comfortable with offering a Work from Home (WFH) or hybrid model to employees after the Covid-19 lockdown ended, writes Rhys Evans, MD at ALCO-Safe.As employees now spend more of their working hours at home, this can pose a...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 24, 2022 | Security and Legal
When South Africa completed its latest, long overdue, radio frequency spectrum auction in March, it created an expectation in the minds of consumers that mobile data costs will be reduced, writes By Sihle Bulose, Partner: Corporate/M&A, Savanna Stephens, Senior...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 24, 2022 | Security and Legal
Nowadays, threat actors are leaning on new tools and techniques to improve the efficiency of their attacks, write FortiGuard Labs team: Jonas Walker, Security Strategist at FortiGuard Labs and Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist & VP Global Threat Intelligence...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 28, 2022 | Security and Legal
On 25 July 2022, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the Government’s intention to implement various “bold, courageous and decisive action[s] to close the electricity gap” in South Africa and bring an end to loadshedding. We unpack the legal and...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 27, 2022 | Security and Legal
In its final report, the Zondo Commission repeatedly comments that directors of the various captured state entities have not been properly held accountable for the massive damage they have caused to the organisations they were supposed to serve, and thus indirectly to...