AI is rapidly becoming part of everyday customer interactions. Whether you are speaking to your bank, insurer, healthcare provider or retailer, there is an increasing chance your first conversation is with AI. As businesses adopt AI voice agents, one question becomes more important than any other: can you trust the AI that is speaking to…
A growing appreciation of family-oriented leisure pastimes and rapidly increasing prosperity are driving demand for vessels from dinghies to yachts. Nelson Ching | Bloomberg | Getty Images Beijing is moving to clarify new tax rules on offshore trusts that have sowed confusion among wealthy Chinese citizens and their advisers. China’s State Taxation Administration is conducting…
Long, mysterious absences promote the idea that unaccountable forces are at the levers of power. Aging leaders. Mysterious medical appointments. Elected officials’ long absences from public duties, explained in the vaguest of terms or not at all. These increasingly common features of political life in the United States are familiar to many followers of African…
Darren James of Specops Software Traditional approaches to access security no longer hold up in hybrid, cloud-first environments – and AI is widening the gap. In this episode, host Kevin Smith speaks to Darren James, senior product manager at Specops Software, about the distance between how organisations secure access and how people actually work. Businesses…
Caesar Tonkin, managing director of Armata. (Image: Supplied) Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating the cyber threat landscape, enabling attackers to automate attacks, exploit vulnerabilities and impersonate trusted individuals, while organisations struggle to keep pace with the security and governance risks associated with the technology. The growing threat posed by AI, coupled with the need for…
Cybersecurity is entering a new phase. The biggest threat to organisations is no longer necessarily a suspicious e-mail or an obviously malicious file. Increasingly, cybercriminals are exploiting the digital experiences, platforms and workflows that employees already trust. Gen Digital’s H1 2026 Threat Report highlights a clear shift in the threat landscape. Attackers are moving closer…
Craig Rosewarne, Managing Director, Wolfpack Information Risk. Not long ago, I sat in a boardroom after a successful audit. The organisation had achieved the outcome it wanted, the evidence had been submitted and everyone around the table looked relieved. Then one of the directors asked a question that changed the tone of the conversation. “That’s…
A subtle anomaly. An unpopular call to isolate critical systems. Resistance from every direction. That decision, made years ago with a key stakeholder during a live cybersecurity incident I was managing as a consultant, looked excessive at the time. It turned out to be the difference between a contained event and a ransomware attack that…
Take five minutes to share your perspective, receive early access to the findings and stand a chance to win. How confident are you that your organisation’s data is ready to support AI initiatives, withstand cyber threats and meet growing governance demands? ITWeb Africa and Veeam are conducting the 2026 Data Trust and AI Readiness Survey….
Young people working on promoting peace in some of the world’s most fragile and polarized places say financial support remains essential, but money alone will not sustain their efforts to organize youth to participate in peacebuilding. As conflicts around the world continue to proliferate, a group of young UN peacebuilders met at UN Headquarters on…
