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SOFTSWISS calls for resilience-by-design at Africa Technology Week
SOFTSWISS leveraged its keynote platform at the opening of Africa Technology Week to formalise its South African market ambitions, highlighting cybersecurity resilience as central to its strategy. Deputy CSO Artem Bychkov warned that with cyberattacks escalating alongside digital adoption, companies entering African markets must be builders – not just participants – in secure digital ecosystems.
Artem Bychkov, Deputy Chief Security Officer at SOFTSWISS, addressed delegates with a warning: Africa’ s booming digital economy is being matched – and in some cases outpaced – by cybercriminal innovation. South Africa now ranks among the top three countries globally in cybercrime-related losses, with R2.2 billion lost annually.
“ As the continent becomes more connected and digitally empowered, so too does the cyber risk. But with the right architecture, we can build resilience from the ground up,” said Bychkov.
Cybercriminals adapt fast. There’ s no substitute for a comprehensive security programme. People, processes, and technology must align under a long-term vision.
SOFTSWISS’ presence at Africa Technology Week underscores its ambitions to support Africa’ s digital future not only through gaming platforms but also through a broader ecosystem of secure digital services. From device-level MFA and behavioural analytics to real-time monitoring and secure-by-design development, the company is bringing global cybersecurity standards to the continent – and evolving them to meet local realities.
Artem Bychkov
Bychkov spotlighted established as well as emerging threats – from malware-asa-service and supply chain infiltration to deepfake-driven KYC fraud – and positioned SOFTSWISS as a company whose track record in technical stability and innovation is vital for the African market.
SOFTSWISS is an international technology company with over 15 years of experience in developing innovative solutions for the iGaming industry. SOFTSWISS complies with a number of gaming licences and provides comprehensive software for managing iGaming projects.
CASA Software appointed distributor of 1Bonding for sub-Saharan Africa
CASA Software was recently appointed sole distributor and reseller of 1Bonding for the sub-Saharan Africa region. Collaboration Drag refers to the friction, delays, and errors that happen when IT teams must manually move information between platforms. It is an invisible bottleneck that 1Bonding, now available in South Africa through CASA Software, solves.
This is time consuming, prone to error, and potentially also a security risk.”
When they encounter the problem, many organisations just bomb ahead in manual swivel chair mode until a point where they realise that it’ s costing them too much. Then one of the things that they often jump into is point-to-point integrations – building a very specific integration to talk to another system and vice versa. These are very bespoke and can be time-consuming and costly. Another challenge is that if they add another system or the systems are upgraded, the complexity increases.
Paul Field, Professional Services Manager at CASA Software, says Collaboration Drag is a growing challenge in organisations managing multiple platforms – either internally, or connected with clients, partners and vendors.
“ We come across many customers with multiple service management platforms, for example, they may need to capture the same information across these systems, often using a manual swivel chair approach, in which they must copy and paste the same information from one system to another.
Paul Field
Ilse Wocke, CASA product specialist for 1Bonding, adds that these manual interventions slow processes down and negatively impact SLAs, bidirectional communication and feedback to clients and customers.
“ There are broken workflows between systems that should be talking to each other. Organisations need solutions that enable collaboration in IT with an integration layer that eliminates manual handoffs, data silos, and client confusion,” she says.
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