Cybersecurity

Africa Is Adopting AI but Who Is Governing the Risks?

African institutions are adopting AI across public services and business, but effective deployment requires governance structures that address cybersecurity, accountability, procurement, digital sovereignty, regulatory coordination and institutional capacity.

Why Africa Keeps Relearning the Same Digital Lessons

Africa's digital transformation challenge is not a lack of strategies or research, but weak institutional learning that prevents governments from preserving project lessons, applying evidence and avoiding repeated failures across administrations and technology programs.

EU Cyber Resilience Act Costs and Economic Impact

The EU Cyber Resilience Act faces questions over its economic impact as third-party estimates point to substantial compliance costs, competitive pressures and unresolved concerns about whether its requirements meet established proportionality and competition norms.

Taming Shadow AI: Closing the Context Gap in Enterprise AI Security

Shadow AI exposes sensitive enterprise data when employees use unsanctioned AI tools. Context-aware guardrails can reduce leakage and false positives by combining deterministic rules, contextual inspection, graduated enforcement and centralized observability.

Why Container Security Is Still Fighting Yesterday’s Battle

Rule-based container security can miss attacks that evade predefined patterns, prompting an argument for behavioral detection that models activity across Kubernetes workloads and control planes while retaining rules for known threats.

Two Years After His Arrest, Pavel Durov Wants to Run His Own Registry

Telegram says it has applied for .gram, potentially giving a billion users DNS addresses while putting its governance, abuse controls, legal exposure and infrastructure under scrutiny as ICANN prepares to reveal applications.

How Domain Abuse, Social Media, and AI Fuel Brand Attacks

CISOs expect social media impersonation to become their leading cybersecurity threat as attackers increasingly combine AI-enabled deception, executive impersonation, and domain abuse across multiple channels to conduct fraud and steal sensitive information.

Building Digital Operations Across Borders: Regulation, Security & Internet Governance

Building a technology operation in India showed that regulation, governance, security, people and technology work best as one operating environment, with compliance, access controls and local autonomy designed in from the outset.

From Forgotten to Exploited: How AI Changes the Dangling DNS Threat

Dangling DNS records can expose trusted corporate subdomains to takeover, while AI-assisted reconnaissance makes abandoned resources easier to find, increasing the need for continuous DNS monitoring rather than periodic audits.

Digital Embassies: Could Africa Rethink Digital Sovereignty?

Estonia's data embassy model offers African governments a different approach to digital sovereignty, combining cross-border infrastructure, legal safeguards and geographic redundancy to keep critical state systems secure, recoverable and operational during major disruptions.