African firms worry over state cyber safeguards

Most companies are not confident in governments’ cybersecurity preparedness.

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At least four in 10 companies in Africa lack confidence in their governments’ preparedness to respond to a major cyber security incident, a higher proportion than other regions globally. And the findings may highlight poor national investments in cybersecurity across the continent.

This means that a large number of organisations on the continent worry that should there be a major cyberattack, they may suffer serious economic losses and damage as their governments don’t have sufficient safeguards in place to mitigate the impacts.