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🇰🇪 East Africa · Data resident in Kenya

Cybersecurity in Kenya.

Kenyan organizations meet the Data Protection Act 2019 and CBK guidance, with mobile-money fraud and ransomware leading the threat. WoneShield secures and makes them recoverable, with data kept in-country and the ODPC's duties met.

Kenya · Cyber Risk Snapshot
Top threat
Mobile-mone…
Key regulations
3
Data residency
In-country
Most-targeted sectors
Banking
88%
Mobile money
84%
Government
70%
Telecom
64%
Mobile-money and payments fraudlive
Ransomware against banks and governmentlive

Compliance

The regulations Kenyan organizations answer to.

DPA 2019

Data Protection Act, 2019

Data-protection duties and breach notification overseen by the ODPC.

CBK

CBK cybersecurity guidance

Cyber-risk and incident-reporting expectations for banks and payment providers.

ODPC

Office of the Data Protection Commissioner

Registration and compliance obligations for data controllers and processors.

WoneShield Comply maps your controls to these and auto-collects the evidence.

Threat landscape

What Kenyan organizations are up against.

Mobile-money and payments fraud
Ransomware against banks and government
Business email compromise and phishing

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89%
Exposure score
Critical risk
Expected annual loss
KSh310.5M
approx., based on industry benchmarks
More exposed than 76% of Kenyan financial services orgs.
Ransomware91
Phishing / BEC98
Data breach86
Downtime78
Applicable in Kenya
DPA 2019CBKODPC
Breach-notification duties & penalties apply.
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