Thembekile O. Mayayise is a senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a PhD (Information Systems) from the University of South Africa. Her research interests lie in cybersecurity, industry 4.0, e-commerce, e-government and computer auditing. She is a certified IT auditor through ISACA and has 19 years of industry work experience in the IT governance and cyber security fields.