Businesses at Risk Due to Unidentified Network Traffic According to Sophos Global Survey “The Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls”: Key Survey Findings from South Africa: • IT managers cannot identify 38 percent of their organization’s network traffic • 91 percent of organizations agree that a lack of application visibility is a serious security concern • …
South Africa in the news: Political risk remains the key consideration for dealmaking in Africa: The political uncertainty and weak macroeconomic situation that accounted for fewer deals in Africa’s largest markets in 2017 look set to ease over the coming year JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, April 9, 2018/ — Political risk will remain a major concern …
Nairobi is at risk from another cholera outbreak. Why this isn’t necessary: Slums like Mathare in Nairobi are particularly prone to flooding. EPA-EFE/Daniel Irungu Flooding has affected households across Nairobi – even in the city’s high-end diplomatic enclaves. Its effects range. In addition to the deaths and serious injuries, vexing traffic jams have been intensified …
South Africa in the news: Jacob Zuma trial carries added risk for ANC: “Not only will a drawn-out trial be a constant reminder to voters that he was enmeshed in scandal for most of the nine years he led South Africa,” says Bloomberg, “it raises uncomfortable questions about why the ANC, parliament and prosecutors failed …
Combatting cloud’s biggest security risk: the user: Benjamin Coetzer, Director, Routed Cloud is coming into its own. Forrester says that public cloud platforms, business services, and applications will reach $ 236B by 2020. With cloud spending predicted to be six times that of IT spending over the same period, a cloud strategy is how companies …
The Critical Importance of Documented Risk Assessment: In April of 1912, Captain E.J. Smith said, “Never in all history have we harnessed such formidable technology. Every scientific advancement known to man has been incorporated into its design. The operational controls are sound and foolproof!” This quote went on to become synonymous with one of history’s …
Executives in the Line of Fire: A Cautionary Tale of Risk Assurance: 2017 saw the resignation of several senior executives of large global corporations as a result of organisation-wide malpractice. This has established a new benchmark for accountability in South Africa: executives are being more assertive when it comes to wrongdoings within their businesses. The …
New dams in Africa could add risk to power supplies down the line: Hydropower plays a massive role electrifying many countries. Shutterstock In the 1980s and 1990s parts of Africa saw a surge in dam building for energy production. After a brief hiatus there has been renewed interested. Many new construction projects are planned and …
Lidl recall Drinking Chocolate Sticks due to allergy risk: Lidl is recalling four varieties of its Deluxe Drinking Chocolate Sticks as they contain various allergens such as nut, wheat, gluten soya and dairy products. This means the chocolate sticks are a possible health risk to anyone with an allergy or intolerance to the components listed. …
Weightlifters and divers offer a lesson for business in risk and reward: Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics/Flickr, CC BY-NC What do elite weightlifting and diving competitions have in common with top-level money management or pharmaceutical development? In all of these diverse fields, there is an element of “tournament”. The rewards are fixed in advance, concentrated at …
F1 Malaysian Grand Prix: Sebastian Vettel at risk of a grid penalty after bizarre post-race crash: Sebastian Vettel produced what was arguably the drive of the day in Malaysia, scything through the field to finish fourth after starting from the back of the grid. But the German – who is rapidly falling out of title …
South Africa in the news: South Africa’s rand steady as U.S. political risk, terror attacks weigh: JOHANNESBURG, Aug 18 (Reuters) – South Africa’s rand held steady against the dollar on Friday as worries over U.S. political risk and a terror attack in Spain halted gains of risk assets. * At 0906 GMT, the currency was …
How South Africa can reduce the risk of infections in hospitalised children: Hospital-acquired infections remains an underfunded public health problem in most African countries. EPA/Nic Bothma Health care associated infections are infections that people acquire during their stay in hospital. Children – and babies in particular – are most at risk for hospital-acquired pneumonia, bloodstream …
Tumble dryers recalled due to fire risk: White goods manufacturer Beko is warning customers that more than 3,000 of its tumble dryers could pose a fire risk. The safety notice concerns five Beko and Blomberg 8kg and 9kg capacity condenser tumble dryers, manufactured between May and November 2012. : Weird News Stop and notice the …
Masterclass: Cyber Security and Risk Management – a Sport interest event taking place on 2017-06-06 09:30:00 in United Kingdom The aim of this Masterclass is to look at what cyber security is, what cyber risk means for businesses and how it affects everyone and every business. We will discuss recent events such as the cyber …
Living in a poor area increases the risk of anxiety in women, but not men: Women are hardest hit. Shutterstock Women living in the most deprived areas are over 60% more likely to have anxiety as women living in richer areas. However, whether men live in poorer or richer areas seems to make very little …
South Africa in the news: ‘SA banks at risk’ over Fica Bill: London – A global group that monitors money laundering worldwide has expressed concern that a bill to fight the crime in South Africa faces “significant ongoing delays” and warned that the country’s banks risked being exposed to illicit money flows …: “South Africa” …
The risk of not securing dotAfrica Domains: Trademark owners failing to register dotAfrica (.africa) domain names matching their brand names during the 04 April to 02 June Sunrise phase could find themselves incurring significant legal costs. There are innumerable complexities involved in trying to wrest intellectual property away from those who would have snapped up …