Computing SA staff

The issue of South African corporate IT security has become a boardroom discussion, due in part to regulatory and statutory requirements and policy frameworks, and the high profile security breaches seen in 2003 and 2004, according to BMI-TechKnowledge Group.

Until now, most analysts have assumed that the emerging regulatory changes, including the forthcoming convergence legislation, would take place relatively slowly, without any sudden, revolutionary changes

The South African Competition Appeal Court has upheld the decision of the Competition Tribunal in favour of Orion Telecom Networks Inc., regarding Telkom SA Ltd.'s withholding of the terms of its "secret" deals with Standard Bank Group and Edgars Consolidated Stores Ltd. for the provision of telephony and related services.

Microsoft Corp.'s South African division says that the Pretoria Commercial Crime Court sentence of Craig Marnoch to the maximum term of three years imprisonment in terms of the Counterfeit Goods Act, after finding him guilty of selling counterfeit Microsoft products and infringing Microsoft's copyright, is a first in SA legal history.

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Regulatory compliance, or "red tape", will cost South Africa (SA) business R79 billion (US$13 billion) in 2004

According to a statement released by the .za Domain Name Authority (DNA) Thursday, the .za DNA is in the process of applying to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the redelegation of responsibility for the South Africa (SA) Internet domain (.za) to the Authority.

Telecommunications company, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., has signed an exclusive supplier agreement with Emtel Ltd. in Mauritius for the supply, installation and commissioning of Mauritius' first mobile 3G/WCDMA network.