As part of the CyberSecurity awareness month, Safaricom hosted an industry wide cyber security summit with a call on businesses, government and individuals to invest in technologies that protect sensitive information and critical systems from cyber [c]
The youth in Coast region are set to upscale their digital skills for gainful self-employment following the launch of a second Jitume Digital Lab in the region at the Kenya Coast National Polytechnic in Mombasa [c]
The first is optimization of industrial processes using innovative technologies like Artificial Intelligence to create ‘intelligent factories’ of the future. Here, we are talking of not just automation of industries but also the use of innovative technologies like data analytics to achieve higher levels of throughput and yield while reducing costs. Companies in other countries are experimenting with AI to improve product quality through automated inspection processes and mitigate supply chain disruptions by programming machines to ‘learn’ advanced production planning and scheduling techniques. [c]
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has published a new sectoral survey report, The State of Ransomware in State and Local Government 2022, which found that 72% of state and local government organizations attacked [c]
ESET researchers recently discovered targeted attacks that used undocumented tools against various high-profile companies and local governments mostly in Asia, but also in the Middle East and Africa. These attacks were conducted by a previously [c]
Kaspersky researchers have reported an ongoing campaign carried out by an advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed ToddyCat, which focuses on compromising multiple Microsoft Exchange servers using two malicious programs – Samurai backdoor and Ninja [c]
The Kenya government and local technology firms see taking up cyber insurance as a key measure in the process of heightening surveillance and protection of their critical networks and infrastructure amid a rising threat from [c]
With Financial and Government services going online rapidly, transaction volumes are soaring, requiring high data concurrency. The banking industry particularly has always needed high reliability infrastructure to prevent huge economic losses caused by data loss [c]
Last, that is 2020, demonstrated how overwhelmingly important a connected infrastructure and digital services have become for the daily functioning of society. This realisation has led to a shift in attitudes to privacy and the [c]
A total of 784 civil servants have graduated after successfully completing a one week ICT training organized by Huawei in collaboration with the ICT Authority. Among them were 514 non-technical staff and 270 technical staff [c]
An INTERPOL assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on cybercrime has shown a significant target shift from individuals and small businesses to major corporations, governments and critical infrastructure. With organizations and businesses rapidly deploying remote [c]
Worldwide government IT spending is forecast to total $438 billion in 2020, a decrease of 0.6% from 2019, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. Global government IT spending will represent 16% of total enterprise [c]
Thirty-eight percent (38%) of local consumers say they are happy for the government to monitor social media activity to keep its citizens safe, according to Kaspersky’s latest report, Social credits and security: Embracing the world [c]
AI capabilities will be most effective when applied in full collaboration between IT leaders and medical, epidemic and healthcare specialists Executives responsible for artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, particularly CIOs and CDOs in governmental and healthcare [c]
Gartner has released its list of the top 10 government technology trends for 2019-2020 that have the potential to optimize or transform public services, noting that government CIOs should include these trends in their strategic [c]
The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) is alarmed by the blatant disregard of the law in respect to media freedoms and freedom of expression in the country by the Kenyan Government. In a statement issued [c]
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