Take a look at how the 2026 threat landscape is evolving within the East African tech ecosystem.
An urgent payment request arrives from your managing director. The wording sounds right, the timing makes sense, and the voice message seems genuine. Would your team pause to verify it?
That question is becoming increasingly important for East African organisations. In its African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, INTERPOL identifies East Africa as a hub for mobile money fraud and infrastructure-targeted ransomware. The report, drawing on surveys from 36 African countries, also states that AI enables 55% of reported cybercrimes across Africa. That is a continent-wide finding, not an East African prevalence estimate, but the warning is clear: deception is becoming easier to scale.
Protect identities, not just devices
Attackers do not always need to break through your firewall. Sometimes, they simply sign in with stolen credentials.
RSA’s identity and multi-factor authentication solutions can strengthen access verification, while One Identity can help govern who has access to which systems. BeyondTrust addresses another critical exposure: privileged accounts that could give an intruder control over servers, applications or remote support sessions.
Together, appropriately selected controls can make a compromised password less useful and limit what an attacker can reach.
Make ransomware harder to spread
Ransomware resilience starts before an infection. Fortinet’s network security solutions can support segmentation and traffic inspection, helping restrict movement between business systems. Sophos endpoint protection and managed detection capabilities can help identify suspicious activity and support response.
Tenable adds visibility into vulnerabilities that need remediation. Prioritising exposed, business-critical systems is more useful than treating every finding as equally urgent.
However, no security product replaces tested recovery arrangements. Keep backups isolated from everyday administrative access, test restoration, and establish who can authorise containment when essential services are threatened.
Close the human and operational gaps
Introduce independent verification for payment changes, especially requests received by email or messaging apps. Use a previously verified telephone number, not contact details supplied in the request. Give staff a straightforward reporting channel and rehearse realistic fraud scenarios.
Microlan Solutions can help connect these operational safeguards with identity, network and endpoint controls suited to your environment. The aim is not simply more technology; it is fewer opportunities for attackers and a clearer response when something goes wrong.
At Microlan Solutions, we help organisations assess their exposure and prioritise practical protection for their organisation. Book a consultation.