For 20 years, payment security treated bots as the enemy. Agentic commerce just flipped that assumption upside down.

The rise of AI-driven cyber threats hasn’t rendered passwords obsolete, but it has highlighted the critical need for multi-layered defence-in-depth to protect user accounts.

South African businesses track inbound payments obsessively; yet payouts often remain a blind spot. As volumes grow, incorrect or manipulated bank details quietly increase fraud and failure risk.

Social engineering dominates cyber attacks in South Africa, exploiting heavy reliance on card-based payment systems.

New research from global tech strategists Juniper Research has found that ecommerce fraud will rise from $56bn in 2025 to $131bn in 2030; posting a 133% increase over the period.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is no longer an IT choice; it’s the operating system of business itself. From Salesforce to Workday and Microsoft 365 to Slack, the SaaS layer now underpins collaboration, analytics, and decision-making.

Recent global research reveals which threats security leaders consider most urgent, with AI vulnerabilities now concerning 87% of cybersecurity professionals worldwide.

Despite massive investment in security tools and technologies, cyber breaches continue to spike.

Although phishing activity declined by 40% compared to Q1, it remained the leading initial access method for threat actors, according to a new Cisco Talos report.

New data shows that ecommerce fraud is costing online retailers US $11 million a year and a significant percentage of this is coming from the customers themselves.