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Jan 24, 2025 | 
bizcommunity.com | Karabo Ledwaba |Gerhard Swart |Anna Collard |Lindsey Schutters
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Social media is filled with creators eager to grow their audience and collaborate with popular brands. Receiving a first PR package is often seen as a significant milestone and recognition of their branding efforts. Protecting yourself from social media brand scamsUnfortunately, scammers are well aware of this enthusiasm and are increasingly exploiting it.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
bizcommunity.com | Gerhard Swart
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We've become accustomed to passwords, fingerprint readers, and antivirus software. We use one-time pins to authenticate transactions and activate VPN software to stay safe on public networks. We are well aware of threats like identity theft, ransomware, and phishing emails fuelling a cybercrime scourge that has cost the world just shy of $10trn in 2024.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
ai-impact.co.za | Gerhard Swart
Johannesburg, 3 December24: Cybercriminals can strike at any time. When you take some time off during December and January, how do you ensure your business remains cyber-safe? During major holiday periods, ransomware attacksjump a whopping 30%. Holidays also experience increased online scams, exploiting themes such as gift sales, package deliveries, and charity drives.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
bbrief.co.za | Gerhard Swart
Criminals are launching targeted online attacks against high-value individuals. What can they do to stay safe? Most cyberattacks are opportunistic. Much like a mugging on a dark street, it doesn’t matter who the victim is as long as the perpetrators gain something out of their crimes. However, a growing number of these attacks are designed to target specific people, such as CEOs, Directors, Board Members, CFOs, IT administrators and wealthy individuals.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
techfinancials.co.za | Gerhard Swart |Gugu Lourie
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
acumenmagazine.co.za | Tamara Oberholster |Manoj Chiba |Wendy du Plessis |Gerhard Swart
Corporates highlight ESG credentials in their reporting. But the questions remain: To what extent should we look to the private sector to address much-needed societal changes? How fit for purpose is ESG as a mechanism for achieving or measuring such changes? ESG issues were first mentioned in the 2006 United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) report. But, in South Africa, what's now known as ESG reporting has been happening long before the term was popularised.
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Jul 30, 2023 | 
acumenmagazine.co.za | Manoj Chiba |Wendy du Plessis |Gerhard Swart |Cara Bower
ChatGPT – or Chat, as the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot likes to call itself – burst onto the world stage on 30 November 2022. Within five days of its launch, had reached a million users, surpassing 100 million active users in January 2023. In the process, the 3.5 version unsettled industries and professionals from academia and education, healthcare, marketing and the media. On 14 March 2023, OpenAI released its GPT-4 version, an even slicker, more creative and nuanced version of Chat.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
acumenmagazine.co.za | Wendy du Plessis |Gerhard Swart |Cara Bower |Thomas Kgokolo
South Africa’s infrastructure is at a critical inflection point. Utilities crucial for the country’s economic advancement, including energy, water and ports, as well as road and rail transport infrastructure, have all come under extreme pressure over the past few years. Many have simply reached breaking point. Social infrastructure resources such as hospitals and schools have deteriorated to the point that they are at risk of failure.
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Jul 23, 2023 | 
acumenmagazine.co.za | Gerhard Swart |Cara Bower |Thomas Kgokolo
Modern organisations rely heavily on digital systems to keep them fast, flexible, and competitive, but such systems also make them more vulnerable and open to various risks, including connectivity failure, data loss, and fines for legal failures. In particular, cyber-related crime and negligence loom large in risk registers. The Allianz Risk Barometer 2022 ranks cyber incidents as companies' top business disruption fear.
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Jul 9, 2023 | 
leader.co.za | Gerhard Swart
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Executives need to take a particular interest in cybercrime. That is a big ask since most business leaders have a minimal understanding of cybersecurity and don't have the time to become experts in this field. But can they ask the right questions?
