As the pace of digital transformation increases, so does the frequency of high profile security incidents and information leaks. This often prompts complex and costly responses, as those who have suffered security breaches – and those who are trying to avoid them – seek ways to manage their exposures and comply with a plethora of industry standards, best practices and government regulations.

Joint silver sponsors at the 6th IT Leaders Africa Summit, SLVA and Ubusha will explore the mechanisms you could use to ensure a secure information-processing environment during their workshop presented by Kris Budnik, Managing Director for SLVA Information Security.

Attendees will hear how they can maximise existing capabilities and leverage the emerging wave of enterprise security technologies that tip the balance away from cyber-criminals and dishonest employees.

SLVA and Ubusha’s holistic response to minimising information security risks requires the ability to:

-Understand and manage who has access to information and systems within your environment and what they are able to do with such access

-Track and have the capability to influence the way that data is accessed, processed and shared within your environment

-Maintain oversight over that environment – ensuring that it remains reliable and free from vulnerabilities which may be exploited to bypass your access control and data governance policies  

Please note that the cut off date for applications to present a workshop at the IT Leaders Africa Summit is the 27th of February 2015.  

During these 60 minute educational workshops, leading industry vendors present their solutions and services in case study format to attending CIOs and IT Heads. Each session is limited to 15 delegates in order to encourage debate and discussion. The workshops are scheduled in advance as the topics are marketed to CIOs and business leaders during the build up to the Summit.  

For IT Leaders Africa Summit brochure advertising opportunities, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   The 6th IT Leaders Africa Summit takes place on 18 & 19 March 2015 at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg.

{pp}Sherpa Software and Hampton Solutions give Lotus Notes users a huge boost when it comes to email management.

Lotus Notes users now have a new product to choose from when it comes to email archiving and compliance in South Africa. Sherpa Software is now available in South Africa.

{pp}Hampton Solutions, distributors of Quick Heal Antivirus in South Africa announce yet another award won.

Quick Heak Antivirus Plus 2008 has passed the tests for allow it to be awarded Check Mark Certification for Windows Vista Business Edition.

{pp}Sherpa Software and local IT Distributor Hampton Solutions have concluded channel partner agreements for the distribution of Sherpa's Email Archiving, Email Management, PST Management and Compliance Tools for MS Exchange and Lotus Notes in South Africa and Africa.

Sherpa Software is now set to make record sales in South Africa now that channel partner agreements have been concluded.

{pp}2010 Target: Service Excellence in SA Challenge presented to consumers to speak up and businesses to respond -  Is South Africa ready to welcome the world?
Not yet, according to the country’s leading consumer affairs portal.

According to a survey of 6 000 South Africans that assessed twelve industry sectors in the country, 40 percent of consumers have widely varying service expectations among different companies and industries.

{pp}Historically, the storage and warehousing of CCTV footage has been a major headache for the CCTV Professional and the Security Practitioner.

Requirements from the end-user, and in some instances where there are legal requirements, are for footage to be kept anywhere from 14 days to 6 months and sometimes even longer. When Digital Video Recording became the mainstay and replaced VCR as a means to record and store video footage, it was a breath of fresh air for the CCTV Professional although this was short lived. The sheer volume of data became a problem as larger, cost effective storage devices only became readily available quite recently.

Since 911, the worldwide shift has been to store vast amounts of video footage as data for very long periods in case it needed to be reviewed at a later time. The problem is that standard storage devices are not up to the task as modern CCTV systems will generate mind boggling amounts of data. There has also been a paradigm shift in what the end-user required. Digital Video Recording had to be real-time, meaning that captured footage must include 25 frames per second per camera. The judiciary and even organisations such as the CCMA are loath to admit video footage as evidence if it is not real time.

{pp}Waterfront Web's co-founder and ICT winner, Leslie Maliepaard strives for excellence as her dream unfolds.

{pp}Attention developers: Free action-packed agenda for Sun Tech Days

Those familiar with the power of open source software will agree with the saying that the best things in life are free.

Sun Microsystems supports this stance and is bringing its Sun Tech Days worldwide developer conference back to the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg from 11-13 March, at no cost to interested developers and software engineers. Among the high-profile Sun executives presenting at the conference is a keynote from Jeff Jackson, Sun's Vice President for engineering, managing the Solaris operating systems, clustering, database and storage software.

JK Properties have done it again. Jaco Viljoen says: “I am always looking for new and different ways to promote our business and therefore give our clients better service.

We have recently started a newsletter to keep our clients up to date on whats happening in and around benoni that could effect our property prices, and I am really proud to announce we are adding video to our marketing strategy and we are really excited about how this will improve our online advertising”

{pp}Quartex technologies has announced the release of their new Web Mapping Service (WMS), designed to provide developers with a fast and easy method of embedding interactive maps in websites.