South African organisations - particularly those responsible for critical infrastructure - need to rethink their reliance on legacy “trusted network” approaches. “It’s a major systemic risk,” says Armand Kruger, Head of Cybersecurity at NEC XON. However, the fact that many African organisations haven’t yet moved beyond the perimeter security mindset presents a unique opportunity.

Enables market entry in the African region; Supports growth of BESS product business through a scalable, partner-led model
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Pace Digitek Limited, together with its subsidiary Lineage Power Private Limited (LPPL) has announced an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partnership with NEC XON, South Africa.

For years, retail strategy debates have asked whether online commerce will replace physical stores. Minesh Manga Executive Enterprise and Retail at NEC XON, who has spent two decades working at the intersection of retail and technology, says that debate is increasingly outdated. The real shift underway is not the replacement of brick-and-mortar retail, but its digitisation.

Africa has reached a significant cybersecurity milestone with the successful deployment of the continent’s largest Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access and Prisma Access Browser Zero Trust environment, supporting secure remote access for more than 40,000 users for a large enterprise in Africa. The project signals a decisive move away from legacy VPN models toward cloud-delivered Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures at enterprise scale.