While technology has driven the digital agenda and led to greater innovation, growth, and efficiency; it also opens the road to potential security breaches and other types of cyber-attacks. As your company hires more and more employees, the number of …
What is a black swan? Some events have never happened before. No model can anticipate them. These are modern-day black swans. They pose high risks. Today, risk is not a possibility; it is a certainty. From economic shocks and cybersecurity …
As East Africa rapidly embraces digital transformation, the region is increasingly becoming a target for sophisticated cybercriminal networks. In particular, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda face growing cyber threats as businesses, government agencies, and service providers expand their digital footprints. …
Unlike other types of crime, the majority of cybercrime incidents in Uganda and the East African Community go unreported, primarily due to the affected entities’ efforts to protect their reputations. Often, victims are financial institutions entrusted with safeguarding customer deposits. …
Kampala, June 2025. A senior finance officer at a regional bank receives a Zoom call from her Group CFO. The CFO is in Nairobi, but his face is on screen. His voice is unmistakable. He urgently instructs a confidential payment …
The popular saying goes: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” And when it comes to risk, culture doesn’t just eat your strategy, it leaks your passwords, signs off bogus deals, and buries red flags under a carpet of silence. So how …
There’s no patch for human error. You can spend billions on the latest firewall, deploy AI-powered threat detection, and encrypt every byte of data in your system, but if your staff clicks on the wrong link, it all crumbles like …
The increasing number and sophisticated nature of cyber-crimes prevailing in industries worldwide. As governing bodies are stepping up to help organizations mitigate the prevailing attack techniques, it is to this day evident that no particular enterprise can be 100% immune …
According to Gartner’s report on ‘Innovation Insight for Attack Surface Management (ASM)’, which covers the growing need faced by security teams to manage an expanding attack surface. Gartner addresses the ‘Top Trends in Cybersecurity 2022’ where it reports that security …
Dear Assurance Manager, Let me pull back the curtain on a real case. A financial institution processed over 300 mobile money withdrawals from dormant accounts within 48 hours. Each withdrawal was small enough to fly under the manual threshold radar. …
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