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1 month ago | itweb.co.za | Alison JobJohannesburg |Alison Job

By Alison JobJohannesburg, 20 Mar 2025ITWeb, in partnership with Veeam, is running a survey on data resilience readiness among businesses in Africa. The survey aims to explore just how prepared these businesses are to recover from a ransomware or cyber attack, as well as the resources they have at their disposal to help them recover. Brendan Widlake, the Regional Director for Africa at Veeam, says, “Data is at the heart of businesses. It's the most important asset.

2 months ago | itweb.co.za | Alison JobJohannesburg |Alison Job

By Alison JobJohannesburg, 13 Mar 2025ITWeb, in partnership with Vodacom Business, conducted a survey on cyber security threats to gain insight into the threats that South African businesses are most concerned about – and how they’re mitigating them. There were 215 valid responses captured, with 55.81% of respondents at executive or mid-management level and 44.19% at IT staff or consultant level.

Feb 5, 2025 | itweb.co.za | Alison JobJohannesburg |Alison Job

The two biggest challenges cited by respondents for the past year were a lack of projects (32%) and financing of customers’ projects (31%). Caswell Mthembu says that many SMEs are unable to finance big projects, and BlueStar’s ability to fill that gap has been instrumental in enabling customers to access deals and projects that are key for their growth.

Jun 20, 2024 | itweb.co.za | Alison JobJohannesburg |Alison Job

A survey on Mac in business, being conducted in partnership with iStore Business, has gone live on ITWeb. It aims to evaluate the Apple ecosystem awareness amongst SA businesses. A 2019 Forrester report was commissioned by Apple to conduct a total economic Impact study and examine the potential return on investment enterprises may realise by deploying Mac devices to their employees.

Apr 30, 2024 | itweb.co.za | Alison JobJohannesburg |Alison Job

By Alison JobJohannesburg, 30 Apr 2024ITWeb, in partnership with KnowBe4, conducted a cybersecurity culture survey earlier this year. The objective was to discover how South African organisations are prioritising human risk, how they currently manage and measure their security culture as well as challenges and opportunities in running security culture programmes and initiatives.