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East AfricaResilience assessmentTLP:AMBER
ICS Resilience and Financial Service Continuity
02 Jul 2026 · Critical Infrastructure Team · 26 pages
How power, water and telecom transmission conditions in the region interact with financial service availability, and what dependency mapping banks should maintain.
Key findings
- 01
Exposed operational technology interfaces persist at utility and facility level across several regional cities.
- 02
Data centre dependency on grid stability is often documented but rarely exercised end to end.
- 03
Telecom transmission single points of failure affect branch and agent connectivity simultaneously.
Affected entities
- — Banks
- — Data centre operators
- — Utilities
- — Telecom carriers
Threat categories
Indicators of compromise
This report is strategic and carries no technical indicators.
Recommended mitigations
- Map financial service dependencies down to facility and utility level
- Exercise generator and failover procedures quarterly
- Require providers to attest that OT interfaces are not internet-exposed