Checklists have to be in place to reduce the risk of a breach in security.

Every new year brings with it unique IT challenges and opportunities. Brainstorm spoke to three CIOs about what will be drawing their focus in 2014.

Creating an app is easy. Creating an experience is much harder. The App Haus is a South African startup that has made it its business to focus on users.

The ICT industry has long been an environment in which the merits of different technologies are robustly debated. But as cloud takes hold, that's changing.

Will Naspers' love affair with WeChat crack the second screen market in Africa?

Reports of the password's death have been greatly exaggerated. Instead, security is betting on a plan B.

Winners and losers at CES

Cellular giant MTN has stepped around many obstacles in its rise to become the Middle East and Africa's largest cellular operator.

Dual-shoring sees an international company operating from two global delivery centres: one at an overseas location, like its headquarters, and the other at a subsidiary or a client in another country.

Sal Laher, Eskom's new CIO, has driven a stunning 14-month turnaround in the public utility's IT division, taking it from total breakdown to the organisation's top-performing division.

The Visionary CIO award, now in its sixth year, recognises an executive who has demonstrated visionary leadership in using technology to support and grow business. Here are this year's finalists.

After first meeting the people at Itec Innovate almost four years ago, former Springbok Bob Skinstad decided he wanted a longer-term relationship with the group, and a career change.

Has the digital revolution spawned a generation of apathetic protestors, or is online advocacy just the evolution of traditional activism?