{"id":9528,"date":"2026-11-05T05:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/heirs-technologies-highlights-growing-threats-to-africas-digital-economy-businessday-ng\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T05:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:15:50","slug":"heirs-technologies-highlights-growing-threats-to-africas-digital-economy-businessday-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/heirs-technologies-highlights-growing-threats-to-africas-digital-economy-businessday-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"Heirs Technologies highlights growing threats to Africa\u2019s digital economy &#8211; Businessday NG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heirs Technologies, a pan-African digital transformation and technology solutions provider, has released the second edition of its industry report, Africa\u2019s Cybersecurity Landscape 2026, examining emerging cyberthreats, regulatory challenges and opportunities shaping Africa\u2019s digital ecosystem, with a strategic focus on Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.\n<\/p>\n<p>The report highlights the growing cybersecurity risks accompanying Africa\u2019s digital transformation, including ransomware, financial fraud, credential theft and AI-enabled attacks.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to research cited in the report, 82% of respondents in Sub-Saharan Africa, in their professional or personal network, had been affected by cyber-enabled fraud in the preceding 12 months.\n<\/p>\n<p>Some of the key highlights of the report show that over 55% of cybercrime cases across Africa now incorporate artificial intelligence.\n<\/p>\n<p>Cloud-based cybersecurity spending in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 14.63% through 2031.<\/p>\n<p>It also shows that foreign-currency pricing and expensive security tools make cybersecurity difficult to afford for many African businesses, creating opportunities for locally delivered, cost-effective managed security services.\n<\/p>\n<p>The report, according to a statement, also \u201cexamines how evolving regulations and data localisation requirements are reshaping enterprise security priorities, also identifying opportunities for locally delivered managed security services, AI-powered threat monitoring and SOC-as-a-Service to address the cost and operational challenges facing African businesses.\n<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the report, Chief Executive Officer of Heirs Technologies, Obong Idiong, in a statement said: \u201cAt Heirs Technologies, we believe Africa\u2019s digital expansion must be built on an unshakeable foundation of trust and resilience. As cyberthreats become increasingly sophisticated, protecting this growth is essential to sustaining the continent\u2019s digital transformation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The report recommends stronger capabilities, greater investment in cybersecurity talent, improved regulatory alignment and closer collaboration between enterprises, policymakers and technology providers.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"bday-read-also\">\n<h4>Related News<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bday-google-badges\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=businessday.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Heirs-Technologies-highlights-growing-threats-to-Africas-digital-economy-Businessday-NG.jpg\" alt=\"Add BusinessDay as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKQgKIiNDQklTRkFnTWFoQUtEbUoxYzJsdVpYTnpaR0Y1TG01bktBQVAB?hl=en-NG&amp;gl=NG&amp;ceid=NG%3Aen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Heirs-Technologies-highlights-growing-threats-to-Africas-digital-economy-Businessday-NG-1.jpg\" alt=\"Follow BusinessDay on Google News\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Businessday NG<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heirs Technologies, a pan-African digital transformation and technology solutions provider, has released the second edition of its industry report, Africa\u2019s Cybersecurity Landscape 2026, examining emerging cyberthreats, regulatory challenges and opportunities&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}