Analysis library
Longer-form assessments across three scopes: global financial threats, the East African region, and individual sectors such as banking, fintech and telecom.
An assessment of intrusion, fraud and availability threats facing Ethiopian banks, microfinance institutions and telecom-linked wallet providers, with a forward view over the next two quarters.
A review of extortion activity affecting organisations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Somalia and Djibouti, including affiliate behaviour, ransom demands and disclosure patterns.
A working guide to the dominant mobile money fraud typologies observed regionally, with control recommendations mapped to each stage of the wallet lifecycle.
An assessment of third-party access paths into banking and fintech environments, from core banking vendors and managed service providers through to open-source dependencies in payment code.
A strategic view of threats to financial institutions worldwide, covering extortion economics, state-aligned pre-positioning, payment fraud automation and the security implications of instant payment rails.
An examination of how telecom carriers have become financial infrastructure through wallet services, and the threat consequences for both carrier and banking risk teams.
How power, water and telecom transmission conditions in the region interact with financial service availability, and what dependency mapping banks should maintain.
An assessment of state-aligned and mercenary intrusion activity against government, supervisory and financial targets in the Horn of Africa, with tracked clusters and observed tradecraft.