November 25, 2018 •
General •
Fundi Maseko •
Comments Off on The rise of the millennial workforce has driven the evolution of tech
With the war for eyeballs, attention spans and airtime ongoing, the media has taken to broadly denouncing this group in clickbait articles; generous with accusations yet economical on facts. Millennials are scathingly labelled as flaky, cellphone-obsessed...
November 7, 2018 •
Security •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on Endpoint Detection and Response – the best way to do it
Endpoint protection is one of the primary considerations for cybersecurity. There was a time when on-premise desktop computers were the only thing that had to be secured. However, BYOD and enterprise mobility have changed all that. There are now a number of...
September 17, 2018 •
Security, Top Stories •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on A closer look at the ups and downs of BYOD
Tablets, smartphones, iPods, MP3-players, USB flash drives, you name the device and people in Namibia have them. Employees or ‘ end-users’, if you will, will bring their own devices to work and not hesitate to connect to company’s wi-fi or directly plug...
June 20, 2018 •
Startups •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on The technology driving big advantages for SMMEs
Deciding to take the plunge into the world of entrepreneurship is a scary prospect, but also one that holds incredible promise – if founders play their cards right. Despite shaky economies around the world, the current digital era is a great time to launch...
Technology is making workspaces and work styles more flexible and collaborative by the day. Cutting edge personal devices continue to infiltrate the workplace and with cloud computing and superior Internet connectivity, the idea of working from anywhere is...
March 28, 2018 •
Top Stories •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on How to choose the right enterprise mobility strategy for your business
In line with many of the recent technology forecasts, smartphone penetration has skyrocketed. Locally, statista.com has reported that the number of smartphone users in South Africa will reach over 25 million by 2022. In 2017, the number of smartphone users...
March 20, 2018 •
Security, Sponsored •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on BYOD: the benefits, risks and threats
Arbor Networks has, with many peers, been discussing BYOD (Bring Your Own Devices) for over five years now and, as predicted, through the ongoing growth in use of external devices in companies all over South Africa, this trend is not going away. This is...
March 9, 2018 •
General •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on Tools to keep your business running efficiently
“Cape Town set to become the first major city in the world to run out of water” is just one of the statements to make headlines amidst the severe drought residents are facing. And while Day Zero is somewhat of a moving target, the reality of taps running...
February 8, 2018 •
General, Top Stories •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on Millennials pose a greater cybersecurity risk in the workplace
As a far more tech savvy generation, millennials pose a greater cybersecurity risk than any other generation in the workplace, with their desire to use the same devices for both personal and professional purposes. Many do not think about corporate security...
January 30, 2018 •
Retail, Southern Africa •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on The digital evolution of South Africa’s shipping industry
As South Africa’s maritime and shipping industry continues to benefit from technological interconnectivity, the sector is on the brink of a true digital evolution – but requires dynamic changes to be made to its policies. “The maritime sector is...
The use of personal mobile devices in the workplace has skyrocketed, creating unprecedented threats to information security. Organisations that are geared up to meet these risks can reap tremendous gains in productivity and competitive advantage. So says...
November 10, 2017 •
Southern Africa •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on Backups are the missing element in many organisations’ BYOD strategies
Over the past few years, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has entrenched itself in many large companies’ IT policies and become a part of their organisational culture. CIOs acknowledge that BYOD has enabled the workforce to become more mobile, productive and...
Remember the good ol’ days? The days when you were judged on your work performance by the level of darkness outside when you stumbled in – and out – of work. Where your dedication to the job was assessed on one simple factor: your line manager could...
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a recent increasing trend towards employee-owned devices within a business. However, this recent trend of IT consumerization, regardless of its advantages, increasingly poses a security risk to organizations when these personal...
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) schemes – whether officially or unofficially – have slowly but surely been adopted by firms globally. Doubts about security and privacy, when it comes to accessing both corporate and personal data via the cloud, have largely...
It is estimated that 33 billion endpoints will be connected by 2020. With more than half of organisations allowing both multiple types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices as well the bring your own device (BYOD) phenomena, it really is not a great surprise...
