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1 week ago | 
itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe
South Africa is one of the largest perpetrators of online confidence scams, according to a leading cyber expert.
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1 week ago | 
itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe
Ransomware attacks are on the decline, and are being replaced by data exfiltration, says an expert local digital forensics auditor. Professor Danny Myburgh, MD of Cyanre, speaking to ITWeb TV, said his company is called to handle 40 to 60 major breaches of large South African companies every year and has noted a decrease in ransomware in recent months. This, he surmised, is due to companies adopting better backup and recovery strategies, including air-gapping.
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1 month ago | 
itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe
Many organisations are struggling with adopting generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), but one business already well on that journey is Vodacom. Originally launched as an SMS channel, the chatbot TOBi was one of Vodacom’s first public-facing examples of the use of machine learning to look for certain keywords and then help customers get answers to basic questions. Today, SuperTOBi, as it’s now called, uses GenAI to get a better sense of the customers’ demands.
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2 months ago | 
itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe
The world of artificial intelligence moves quickly, with the potential to leave behind companies that fail to adapt. That, along with advice on how to chart a path into AI, was the message from Dell’s General Manager and VP South Africa, Doug Woolley, speaking recently at ITWeb’s AI Summit in Johannesburg. Woolley told delegates that AI was not a fad, but was quickly becoming a business imperative, adding that the rapid pace of change was disruptive, while the impacts would be wide-reaching.
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2 months ago | 
itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe
By Adrian HinchcliffeJohannesburg, 29 Jan 2025Last week, before the tech world’s attention was turned to China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) offering, Microsoft held the South African leg of its global AI tour. Approximately 2 000 attendees descended on the Sandton Convention Centre, in Johannesburg, to hear from the US vendor and its ecosystem partners about the latest trends in AI.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe
With investments increasing and research and development well underway, quantum computers are fast becoming a reality. This new approach to computing, which harnesses quantum mechanics, will offer faster ways to solve complex problems than even the most powerful super computers currently available. One area of concern is the potential of quantum computers to crack current cryptography that’s widely used to secure digital communications and transactions.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe
Key African countries are becoming a hotbed for software developers, with over 650 000 in South Africa alone. This is according to GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, who added that the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into development tools is going to make software development easier to learn and more widely accessible.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe
Three years ago, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) identified that its data business needed to improve its service offering, so it embarked on a modernisation journey that resulted in the launch of a cloud marketplace. Speaking on the sidelines of ITWeb’s recent Cloud and Data Centre Summit, Mark Randall, director of Information Services at the JSE, explained that the data business forms a “chunky part” of the exchange’s annual revenues.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe
Absa has provided training sessions on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to 20% of its workforce, the banking group’s CIO has said. Speaking to ITWeb TV, Absa Group CIO Johnson Idesoh provided this insight, along with an update on the bank’s digital transformation, including its adoption of cloud, plans around crypto-currencies, digital identity, metaverse and its outlook on quantum computing.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe
Thanks to ChatGPT, artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from the domain of technologists into the public consciousness. While the fear that AI would replace jobs (or worse) has subsided for some, the subsequent over-enthusiasm for AI and the belief it can be used to solve every challenge in business – to fix culture, leadership and more – is potentially more dangerous, says professor Johan Steyn, founder of AIforbusiness.net.
