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Cybercrime’s New Frontier: How Africa’s Digital Boom Became a Target

Cybercrime is no longer a distant threat absorbed by wealthy economies with the resources to absorb it. It has moved — quietly, deliberately — into the fastest-growing digital markets on earth. And in Africa, where connectivity is expanding faster than the safeguards around it, the cost is beginning to show. The Cost of Getting Connected […]

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Cybercrime Is An Existential Threat To West Africa’s Economic Growth

By Titilayo Adewumi, Regional Sales Director: West Africa at SAP While organisations across West Africa work to recover from the economic impact of the pandemic, the global cybercrime industry is going into overdrive.  An increasingly sophisticated cybercrime industry is launching a range of attacks aimed at organisations and critical infrastructure. Such attacks are growing in […]

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Staying Ahead Of Cybercrime Is A Business Imperative

It is predicted that there will be 7,5 billion Internet users by 2030 and that more than 111 billion lines of new software code is produced each year. While the growth is exciting, these statistics also outline the number of vulnerabilities open to exploitation. Together with an estimated  96 zettabytes of digital content currently produced, this […]

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High Cost of Cybercrime in Africa Cause for Concern

African businesses need to take more decisive steps to prioritise data protection and enhance enterprise security in order to mitigate cybercrime. Ken Munyi, Country Manager at iWayAfrica Kenya says the millions of cyberattacks that take place every year across the continent are cause for concern, particularly for Africa’s larger economies such as South Africa and […]

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