The CFO arrived late, carrying the kind of silence that makes an executive committee stop checking phones. “We have lost money.” Nobody spoke. The room went silent you could hear even a pin drop. The first number was UGX 1.8 …
The regulator did not ask the question our technology team expected. We had spent weeks preparing architecture diagrams, firewall maps, endpoint statistics, licence schedules and a beautiful slide showing a Security Operations Centre with six large screens. Then the supervisor …
Most companies are buying AI for cybersecurity for the wrong reason. They want a smarter alarm. What they actually need is a faster decision. I have sat in enough boardrooms after incidents to know the pattern. Management asks, “Why did …
In October 2020, Ugandans woke up to a visible reminder of how dependent our economy had become on invisible digital connections. Stanbic Bank, MTN Uganda and Airtel Uganda announced that a third-party service provider had suffered a system incident affecting …
Be helpful and hard to rush. Cybersecurity Awareness Week 2026 | 3 October 2026 It is 4:47 p.m., and Sarah, an insurance administrator in Kampala, is getting ready to leave work. Then a WhatsApp message arrives from someone using her …
On 15 September 2025, Uganda’s Supreme Court dealt with a fraud involving misuse of a mobile-money system. The important evidence was digital: user IDs, login activity, and IP trails. The Court accepted properly authenticated system records as evidence linking digital …
At 7:42 Tuesday morning in Kampala, an internal auditor opened a routine supplier-payment report and noticed something that looked too neat to be accidental. Eleven invoices, processed over four months, ranged between UGX 9.6 million and UGX 9.9 million. The …
Why is your newest production line still missing targets while overtime, wastage, and customer complaints keep rising? During a leadership workshop at a manufacturing company, I ask the team to explain why a newly installed line is producing below capacity. …
A profitable bank with an unproductive culture is like a luxury bus descending a hill with weak brakes. The passengers admire the speed. The driver celebrates progress. Nobody asks whether the engine is creating momentum or gravity is doing the …
I started my career at Nile Bank, before its acquisition by Barclays Bank, which was acquired by Absa. Nile Bank was moving from manual to digital banking. Files were becoming screens, ledgers were becoming systems and decisions that took days …