 Without the network, there is no AI Artificial intelligence dominates almost every technology conversation. Organisations are racing to deploy AI, vendors are competing to launch ever more powerful models, and data centres have become symbols of digital ambition. But amid the excitement, one of the technologies enabling the AI revolution has quietly slipped from the spotlight: networking.
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AI Is Reshaping Cybersecurity NEC Africa responds, expands cryptographic capabilities with Utimaco As digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging quantum computing threats reshape the security landscape, NEC Africa has expanded its cybersecurity portfolio through a strategic partnership with German cryptography specialist Utimaco. The partnership adds specialist cryptographic security capabilities to NEC Africa's existing cybersecurity portfolio, complementing its expertise in networking, AI security, endpoint protection, security operations and data centre infrastructure.
 A sixth consecutive year of global alliance recognition — and a zero-risk AI acceleration programme for the customers who have trusted NEC XON longes NEC XON has been named HPE Networking Service Provider Global Alliance of the Year 2026 at HPE Discover 2026. It is the sixth consecutive year NEC has earned this global alliance recognition — back-to-back from 2021 through 2025, and again in 2026, now under HPE following its acquisition of Juniper Networks. The award is specified for the service-provider networking category as HPE’s portfolio spans both Aruba and Juniper, and it confirms NEC XON as the partner trusted to deliver carrier-grade networking outcomes across Africa, year after year.
 Partnership Combines NEC XON's ICT Integration Expertise with PowerX's AI-Driven Energy Management Platform to Deliver Integrated Solutions for Africa's Telecommunications Sector
 As organisations face growing regulatory scrutiny and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, confidence in how technology partners manage personal data has become a critical business consideration. Recognising this shift, NEC XON has aligned its data protection (privacy) management framework with the latest requirements of ISO 27701:2025, strengthening the company's ability to protect customer data and support evolving governance expectations.
 By Armand Kruger Head of Cybersecurity at NEC XON Cybersecurity is seen as a “patch fast, block traffic, monitor alerts, respond to incidents” kind of function. But that framing misses the point. Breaches don’t generally begin with brute force. They begin with curiosity. Someone asking a system a question it was never designed to answer and seeing what happens. Thinking about what the system could do, rather than only what it’s meant to do.
 There’s a clear message for companies considering enterprise connectivity strategy: networks are entering a new phase defined less by raw capacity alone, and more by how effectively organisations can manage accelerating data growth, rising complexity and persistent skills shortages.
Brett van Rooyen, NEC XON Adtran Product Manager, says the enterprise landscape is being reshaped by the rapid expansion of cloud and AI-driven workloads.  The recognition caps a deliberate, multi-year strategy of investing in engineering depth, lab capability and customer relationships well ahead of demand - the same long-game discipline that has earned NEC global Partner of the Year recognition, year after year.
 Ransomware attacks rarely begin with chaos. More often, they start quietly - with probing, mapping, and patient reconnaissance inside a target’s network.
That was the situation facing a global recruitment firm when cybercriminals attempted to navigate through the company’s systems. What followed became a real-world demonstration of how modern AI-driven cybersecurity, combined with skilled human intervention, can stop an attack before it escalates into a business crisis. At the centre of the response was NEC XON and its Managed XDR service powered by Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR.  Strategic Mimosa Networks distribution partnership across Africa NEC XON has reinforced its position in the wireless connectivity market through a strategic distribution partnership with Mimosa Networks, enabling the delivery of high-performance fixed wireless access and backhaul solutions across Africa.
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