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What Should You Do During a Cyber Attack Event?
Here’s what you can do to mitigate the damage caused by a cyber attack event by slowing or even stopping its progress. While...

First Technology Western Cape
May 26, 20212 min read
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The Rise or Fall of the Virtual Desktop
Virtual desktop technology is nothing new; some companies have used it for a decade. Yet, after all this time, most people are still...

First Technology Western Cape
Apr 29, 20211 min read
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Director’s View
For the purpose of this edition, we thought it would be interesting to look at the trends that will define 2021 and possibly beyond.

First Technology Western Cape
Apr 6, 20215 min read
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4 Reasons Why Workers Should Welcome Artificial Intelligence In the Workplace
In recent months, concerns about the economic impact of the pandemic have been closely tied with a spate of panicked automation headlines...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 31, 20211 min read
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Ransomware as a service is the new big problem for business
Ransomware as a service is proving effective for cyber criminals who want a piece of the cyber-extortion action but without necessarily...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 31, 20211 min read
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Digital transformation: 5 new realities for CIOs
The massive digitalization we’ve seen over the last year will likely be remembered as one of the most enduring hallmarks of the...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 31, 20212 min read
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Securing IoT: A Moving Target
Mozi. Dark Nexus. Mukashi. LeetHozer. Hoaxcalls. These are just a few of the nefarious botnets continuously threatening...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 31, 20211 min read
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Is your business prepared to recover from a ransomware attack in 2021?
Cyber crime is a multibillion-dollar international industry and is not going away. Ransomware has taken centre stage, with large and...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 31, 20211 min read
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Quantum computing: How basic broadband fiber could pave the way to the next breakthrough
The usefulness of most quantum computers is still significantly limited by the low number of qubits that hardware can support. But simple...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 31, 20211 min read
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Change brings possibility: A new era of sustainable digital transformation
A new report paints an upbeat picture of the good that has come out of the pandemic, including digital preparedness, agility and...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 24, 20211 min read
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How clean is cloud computing? New data reveals how green Google's data centers really are
In an effort to hold itself accountable to its sustainability goals, Google has developed a new publicly-available metric that provides...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 18, 20211 min read
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The world's most powerful supercomputer is now up and running
After seven years in the works, the world's fastest supercomputer has officially been completed in Japan and is now available for...

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Mar 10, 20211 min read
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Developing a roadmap for AI adoption
Artificial intelligence (AI) is in its infancy, and in the very early stages of adoption by most businesses. However, business leaders...

First Technology Western Cape
Mar 3, 20211 min read
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ZACR warns of global cyber criminals targeting SA
The administrator of SA's .za domain name, the ZA Central Registry (ZACR), is warning of an increase in the number of international cyber...

First Technology Western Cape
Feb 24, 20211 min read
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Microsoft warns enterprises of new 'dependency confusion' attack technique
Microsoft has published a white paper on Tuesday about a new type of attack technique called a "dependency confusion" or a "substitution...

First Technology Western Cape
Feb 10, 20211 min read
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Microsoft's quantum cloud computing plans take another big step forward
Azure Quantum, the public cloud ecosystem dedicated to quantum applications developed by Microsoft, is now available for public preview....

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Feb 3, 20211 min read
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5 Digital Transformation Predictions for 2021
Although 2020 might have been a year that no one could have predicted, shrouded with uncertainty, technology was the one constant....

First Technology Western Cape
Jan 29, 20212 min read
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6 Tech Trends to Expect in 2021
By mid-March 2020, business plans went out the window and many shifted focus from thriving to surviving. Pedro Lopes, group MD of Seidor...

First Technology Western Cape
Jan 29, 20212 min read
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Why Now is the Right Moment to Explore Innovations
In 2020, there was a meme on LinkedIn with a poll asking who leads digital transformation in your company. Surprisingly, the choice was...

First Technology Western Cape
Jan 29, 20212 min read
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Why smart homes are the future of the smart enterprise
The first HomeKit-compatible Thread accessories are beginning to appear, and while that’s good news for consumers, it should also be good...

First Technology Western Cape
Jan 29, 20212 min read
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