ICT Articles and Technology Insights for Businesses in South Africa

Most guidance about security incidents concerns prevention, which is appropriate, because prevention is where the leverage is. This piece concerns

A question that comes up after almost every serious incident is how the attack succeeded when antivirus was installed, licensed,

Most security offerings in this market are assembled from products. A provider resells an endpoint agent, perhaps manages a firewall,

A penetration test is scheduled work with a defined scope and a report at the end, and the substantial part

There is a moment in most compliance engagements that feels like completion and is not. The policy suite is finished,

Every financial services provider carrying an obligation under Joint Standard 1 and Joint Standard 2 has three realistic routes available,

Joint Standard 1 took effect on 15 November 2024. Joint Standard 2 followed on 1 June 2025. For the more

Most financial services providers who have taken Joint Standard 1 and Joint Standard 2 seriously have arrived at roughly the

When we assess a technology environment for the first time, we are usually brought in for a specific reason, a

Every network engineer has a category of fault they quietly dread, and it is not the dramatic one. A failed

There is a particular kind of morning that anyone who has run a business with more than two technology suppliers