From IT risk to business-critical resilience
Cyber risk across Africa has become a core business risk, driven by rapid digitalisation, interconnected systems and increasing reliance on data, with attacks now targeting identity, trust and operations rather than just IT infrastructure. As a result, organisations are experiencing more frequent and higher impact incidents that lead to service disruption, financial loss, regulatory exposure and reputational damage, particularly across sectors like financial services, retail and telecommunications.
At the same time, the threat landscape is evolving quickly, with identity-based attacks, ransomware-driven operational disruption, third-party ecosystem risk and AI-enabled threats becoming dominant, requiring organisations to shift from reactive security measures to a more proactive, business-integrated approach to cyber resilience, focused on protecting identity, ensuring operational continuity, strengthening supply chain oversight and embedding strong governance at executive level.
Against this backdrop, this report examines 12 key cyber trends emerging across Africa, which are reshaping the threat landscape and will directly influence the cyber posture, risk exposure and resilience priorities of organisations operating across the region. Access the full report here.
