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 …
UGX 46 million vanished in less than an hour. Not through a sophisticated hack. Not through some dark web syndicate. But because one junior accountant at a mid-sized SACCO forgot to press Ctrl+Alt+Del before stepping out for tea. That’s it. …
Unthinkable. It happened at 11:48 p.m. in a private hospital in Kampala. The lights were still on, but the hospital’s heartbeat, the patchwork of digital and manual systems holding it together, flatlined. The pharmacy system froze. The laboratory printer jammed …
Organisations in the digital ecosystem spend millions trying to establish controls around their corporate networks from data breaches. This to a great extent does not phase away from the fact that breaches still occur even to the most secure infrastructures. …
“Cybersecurity is not just an IT issue; it is a business risk that demands strategic alignment from the top down.” In the digital landscape, cyber threats are evolving at an unprecedented pace, making it crucial for organizations to align cybersecurity …
A common definition of risk is an uncertain event that may occur and have a positive or negative impact on a company’s or organization’s goals. The potential for a risk to have a positive or negative effect is an important …