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CIO Africa: What is your sense of the current trade landscape in Africa in light of supply chain issues that arose from the pandemic and war in Ukraine? Typically in supply chains, there are three parameters that are important: cost, reliability, and length of the supply chain, or the time it takes to connect from one market to another. During COVID-19, all three of these were affected quite significantly by air, sea, and land. Trucks were…

Skills shortages continue to plague the IT sector, causing UK technology job vacancies to shoot up by almost 200% since 2020, according to BCS. Not having the right skills or team is the third biggest worry among senior IT decision-makers in the UK, with two-thirds of technology executives (66%) highlighting that their organisation’s digital transformation projects are being stalled due to struggles in recruiting IT professionals with the skills they need. Cybersecurity is the UK…

There have been many articles about the cost of a security breach. With the emergence of privacy regulations that assign penalties based on a business’ profit, or those that calculate a value for each compromised record, it is possible to calculate the cost of a breach based on those metrics. However, it would seem that these hard numbers are not detailed enough to placate many security professionals. Too many cybersecurity professionals take the unnecessarily broad…

Advancing Risk Management and Stemming the River of Risk by Adopting the Consistent Taxonomy of Cybersecurity Threats – Cybersecurity’s “Lingua Franca.” By Charlie Miller, Senior Advisor, Shared Assessments, CTPRP, Distinguished Ponemon Fellow Companies have been assessing their risks for ages so that they can mitigate them. When companies began to outsource, they faced new risk challenges because they didn’t have much visibility into the control adequacy of the third parties they used. Technology, digital transformation,…