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A new global Kaspersky Security Services report ‘Anatomy of a Cyber World’* reveals a blind spot in enterprise Security Operations Centers (SOCs): while performance is typically measured by detection and response speed, organisations rarely assess whether they’re detecting the right threats. Large portions of collected telemetry don’t enter real-time detection pipelines, creating hidden gaps that internal assessments tend to miss – and fuelling demand for independent SOC Consulting to uncover them. As organisations continue to invest in SOCs, measuring the real performance of these departments remains a challenge. Operational effectiveness depends not only on the volume of collected data, but…

By Tunde Abagun, Sales Lead for West, East and Central Africa, Nutanix The first wave of enterprise AI is maturing. Organisations across Africa and beyond rushed into AI projects over the last two years, and most of them did what was easiest: they did it in the cloud. An AWS subscription here, an Azure instance there, a model running in someone else’s data centre, billed by the hour. Fast to start, simple to justify, and, for many organisations, the right call at the time. But something is shifting. The same organisations that sprinted to public cloud for their first AI…

Binance is calling for greater user awareness across Africa as adoption of digital assets continues to gain pace across the continent. Africa is fast becoming one of the most active regions globally for cryptocurrency use, with individuals and businesses increasingly turning to digital assets for more efficient payments, improved access to financial services, and greater participation in the global economy. This momentum reflects a broader shift towards more inclusive and accessible financial systems. As adoption accelerates, awareness is becoming an increasingly important part of the conversation. Like many areas of digital finance, the growing visibility of crypto has also drawn…

Recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting South African internet infrastructure providers, web hosting companies and connectivity services reflect a broader escalation in both the scale and sophistication of cyberthreats facing the country’s digital economy, according to NETSCOUT. The warning follows a wave of high-profile local incidents that reportedly disrupted hosting providers, ISPs and internet infrastructure services across the country, raising concerns around increasingly coordinated and potentially extortion-linked DDoS activity. “The recent incidents impacting South African infrastructure providers demonstrate how DDoS campaigns are evolving beyond isolated disruptions into broader attacks against critical digital ecosystems, states Bryan Hamman, area vice president for…

Buying Airtel airtime is now easier because you can top up directly from M-Pesa using Pesapal Paybill number 220220. This is one of the most-used Paybill numbers for Airtel airtime purchases and is ideal when you need a fast, reliable way to stay connected. You do not need to visit a shop, buy a scratch card, or look for an agent. You can complete the full process from your phone in a few simple steps. Steps to Buy Airtel Airtime from M-Pesa Follow these steps: Once the payment is successful, you will receive an M-Pesa confirmation message, and the airtime should…

By Shakeel Jhazbhay, General Manager: Digital Business Solutions at Datacentrix With artificial intelligence moving rapidly from experimentation to strategic priority, today’s businesses are collecting more information than ever before. However, many are overlooking a fundamental question during this process: is the information feeding these AI initiatives actually ready? For years, businesses have focused on collecting and storing data. Information now exists across emails, contracts, collaboration platforms, shared drives, cloud repositories, enterprise applications and archives. However, volume alone does not create value. The reality is that much of this data remains unmanaged, inaccessible or underutilised. Often referred to as ‘dark data’, this…

By Veerakumar Natarajan, Country Head, Zoho Kenya Africa has always found its own way around barriers. When fixed-line banking proved too slow and too exclusionary, Kenya did not wait for the infrastructure to catch up. It built M-Pesa instead, a mobile payments platform that by 2022 had 50 million customers across seven African countries and processed nearly 20 billion individual transactions annually. That story is now so well-worn that it risks becoming a cliché. But it contains a genuinely instructive logic: constrained circumstances, properly understood, can become a design brief. Today, Africa faces a new set of constraints, around software…

PayAngel, a cross-border payments platform built by migrants and shaped by a lived understanding of the migrant journey, today announced an expanded collaboration with Visa. Leveraging Currencycloud, a Visa Direct solution, PayAngel will strengthen its multicurrency account and international payout capabilities. The collaboration enables PayAngel to support faster, more efficient cross border payouts across multiple currencies and countries, enhancing how individuals and businesses move money internationally. This capability supports everyday use cases that matter to PayAngel’s customers, from contributing to family milestones and fulfilling communal obligations, to supporting businesses that operate across borders. Born out of a desire to challenge the high costs, friction, and…

Afrika Tikkun, a leading South African non-profit organisation dedicated to holistic youth development, has significantly strengthened its strategy execution capability through a tactical partnership with Project Portfolio Office. By implementing PPO, Project Portfolio Office’s centralised, cloud-based project portfolio management (PPM) platform, Afrika Tikkun has enhanced governance, improved accountability and increased its ability to translate strategic intent into measurable, large-scale outcomes. Strengthening execution through integrated portfolio management As Afrika Tikkun’s cradle-to-career model expanded across early childhood development through its Bambanani programme, adolescent support through Ignite, and youth employability through Head Start, the limitations of decentralised project management practices became increasingly apparent. Critical…

The Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, through its Magical Kenya, Origin of Wonder platform, and Google Kenya today announce a strategic AI-driven partnership. The collaboration follows a recommendation from the Kenya Tourism Rebranding and Repositioning Taskforce. It will advance the Ministry’s ambition to establish Kenya as Africa’s foremost AI-first tourism marketing destination. Centred on the Magical Kenya platform, the partnership is designed to connect global travellers directly with Kenya’s distinctive tourism experiences. The aim is to increase visitor numbers, generate new employment and shift destination management from intuition-based policy to a realtime, data driven system that meets the demand for…