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Big tech’s big bet on cloud security

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Tiana Cline

By Tiana Cline, ContributorJohannesburg, 19 Jun 2025Earlier this year, Google’s parent company Alphabet made its biggest acquisition to date. Its first bid to buy Wiz, a US-Israeli cloud security startup, for $23bn, in July 2024, was rejected. Alphabet closed the deal in March, paying $32bn. The mega-deal shows just how important cloud security has become.
AI and data: Turning dormant assets into business value

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Alison Job

In today’s digital economy, data is often referred to as the new currency of business. But what use is this currency if it’s locked away, never invested or spent – or used to drive better decision-making within the business? Many organisations are collecting vast amounts of data without extracting its full value – often owing to a lack of strategy, trust or understanding.
Compliance, connected

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Tiana Cline

Financial crime doesn’t happen in isolation. It thrives in the spaces between systems, in the misalignment between fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) protocols. While many financial institutions continue to treat these areas as separate disciplines, the criminals they’re trying to catch do not. “Fraudsters find the cracks between disconnected systems,” says Barrie Venter, Sybrin’s product lead for KYC, fraud risk management and identity verification.
OpEd: IM made open plan great; AI is about to kill it

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Phillip de Wet

Are you old enough to remember the raucous old days? I don't know about other sectors, but it was very noticeable in newsrooms because they were particularly loud. The need for collaboration between and across teams kept noise-deadening fabric dividers to a height where they were useful for keeping piles of paper from spilling onto neighbouring desks without ever approaching proper cubicle height.
NTT DATA showcases end-to-end agentic AI capabilities for MEA region

2 weeks ago | itweb.co.za | Tracy Burrows

Agentic AI can prove transformative for companies; however, to overcome the hurdles and achieve ROI, they need to partner with industry leaders that have full-stack agentic AI capabilities. This is according to speakers at a strategic AI executive roundtable hosted by NTT DATA, in partnership with Microsoft and ITWeb, in Johannesburg this week. Asokan Moodley, head of AI and Industry Advisory for Middle East and Africa at NTT DATA, said agentic AI represented a step into the future.
Getting ahead of agentic AI wave in MEA region

2 weeks ago | itweb.co.za | Tracy Burrows

Agentic AI promises to be as transformative and revolutionary as the internet, and companies should be gearing up to embrace the technology and the new ways of working that come with it. This is according to Aishwarya Singh, senior VP, Digital Collaboration Services and head of Microsoft Global Practice at NTT DATA, who was speaking at a strategic AI executive roundtable, hosted in partnership with Microsoft and ITWeb in Johannesburg this week.
IBM firms up quantum roadmap, with 2029 deadline

2 weeks ago | itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe

IBM today unveiled an expanded roadmap to what it claims will be the world’s first large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer. As part of its roadmap, IBM has published two new technical papers that it says will be key to creating the necessary architecture.
APIs: A fast-growing attack vector

2 weeks ago | itweb.co.za | Tracy Burrows

APIs present a growing risk to data security, according to David Moss, API security specialist – UK, Ireland and southern Africa at Akamai, and Ntando Mngomezulu, cloud security manager at Old Mutual. Addressing attendees at the ITWeb Security Summit in Sandton last week, Moss and Mngomezulu highlighted the risks associated with APIs and approaches to mitigating them. Moss noted: “APIs are now the single biggest attack vector facing an organisation.
Top ICT tenders: SARS targets master data management, governance

2 weeks ago | itweb.co.za | Kimberly Guest

While national and provincial departments do not make this week’s roundup of top government ICT tenders, the ICT industry will not be disappointed at the selection of newly-advertised tenders and a particularly interesting request for information. The information request comes from the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and follows its recent allocation of an additional R4 billion over the medium-term by National Treasury to modernise its operations and enhance taxpayer services.
OpEd: It's not you, AI conversations are really hard right now

2 weeks ago | itweb.co.za | Phillip de Wet

By Phillip de Wet, ITWeb contributorJohannesburg, 09 Jun 2025This time last year, Apple announced Apple Intelligence was rolling out across its product lineup, almost exactly as Microsoft was launching its Copilot+ PCs with ludicrous hardware performance to support AI everywhere. Last week, the console I can't help thinking of as the Nintendo Switch 2: AI edition, went on sale to rapturous response, though gamers won't see the benefits of their expensive hardware in too many direct ways just yet.