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 …
Imagine you have a crucial business pitch scheduled at Hotel Triangle in Mbarara. You must be there tomorrow at exactly 9:00 AM, ready and confident to secure a transformative deal. This is your “objective at risk”—the cornerstone of your entire …
Pick any city of your choice – Nairobi, Paris, or Dubai. For my case, let me take you to Kampala, Africa’s top entertainment city. A fuel station. Busy intersection. Trucks, bodas, taxis. One afternoon, a tanker offloads fuel. The driver …
How much is your life worth? Not in a philosophical sense. I mean, literally, if someone stole your email password, your National ID number, or your medical history, what would they fetch for it on the dark web? Because make …