As Ugandans prepare for elections, remember that the integrity of an election is no longer guaranteed by ballot boxes or transparent counting. It is guaranteed by secure data. Modern elections are information systems disguised as civic events. Every stage, from …
Imagine walking into a hospital. The walls are clean, the staff is dressed in neat uniforms, and everything looks perfect on the surface, but behind the scenes, one nurse decides to skip washing her hands “just this once.” Maybe she’s …
Why SACCOs are prime targets. In March 2025, a rural SACCO in Mbarara lost UGX 64 million. No hacker was involved. No firewall was breached. The loss was purely internal, orchestrated by an insider who approved loans to ghost members …
Your silence is a breach, inside Uganda’s quiet regulatory crisis, fueling cybercrime On the morning of August 22, 2022, a bank manager in downtown Kampala received a call that froze her. Overnight, over UGX 3.6 billion had been siphoned from …
The biggest uninsured risk is your own IT team It began, as most tragedies do, with trust. In a local insurance company, the head of IT had been there for eight years. Loyal, quiet, and efficient. The kind of man who never …
Cybersecurity is now an integrity issue. Academic credibility is one breach away. In June, I wrote to several universities and training institutions urging them to rethink their cybersecurity and examination systems. I got no response. Perhaps they still believe cybersecurity …
“Your NGO is not losing money through sacks of maize. It is losing it through megabytes of data.” Most leaders still picture fraud in physical form, missing fuel, fake receipts, ghost beneficiaries, or warehouses half-empty. Yet today’s fraudster doesn’t touch …
Your core banking system is not your biggest risk. Your tellers are. The wheelbarrow mentality is a condition where staff wait to be pushed to do what they are already paid to do. In banking, this mentality is lethal. A …
October is here. Across Uganda, thousands of employees will walk into offices, open emails, and click without thinking. One careless click is all it takes. That is why Cybersecurity Awareness Month is not just another “theme month.” It is a …
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