Adrian Hinchcliffe

In this episode of ITWeb TV, Adam Smith, cyber lead for Southern Africa at the British High Commission discusses the need for Africa’s governments to work together in improving cyber deterrents, the need to improve cyber skills, why the British High Commission has a cyber lead in Southern Africa, and the rise in state-sponsored cyber activity. African countries need to come together to build cyber deterrents, and South Africa is well-positioned to lead that union.

In this episode of ITWeb TV, Craig Brunsden, MD of Axiz, discusses the reality of AI’s impact on the local channel, including chip shortages and price increases for hardware. He also provides an outlook on the direction of the channel, including future consolidation of key players. Any local demand for artificial intelligence (AI) is yet to filter through South Africa’s channel, and it may not. This is according to Craig Brunsden, MD of technology distribution company Axiz.

Investments in machine learning in 2017/18 to support FNB’s risk function are now coming to fruition, having saved the bank and its customers nearly R2 billion in fraud prevention in the last financial year alone. This is according to Dr Mark Nasila, chief data and analytics officer, FNB Risk.