Heirs Technologies, a pan-African digital transformation and technology solutions provider, has released the second edition of its industry report, Africa's Cybersecurity Landscape 2026, examining emerging cyberthreats, regulatory challenges, and opportunities shaping Africa's digital ecosystem, with a strategic focus on Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa.

The report highlights the growing cybersecurity risks accompanying Africa's digital transformation, including ransomware, financial fraud, credential theft, and AI-enabled attacks. According to research cited in the report, 82% of respondents in Sub-Saharan Africa reported that people in their professional or personal networks had been affected by cyber-enabled fraud in the preceding 12 months — a figure that illustrates how cybercrime on the continent reaches beyond corporate systems into individuals' everyday digital lives.

Key findings from the report, read together, sketch a landscape in which the sophistication of threats and the scale of security investment are both expanding:

• More than 55% of cybercrime cases across Africa now incorporate artificial intelligence.
• Cloud-based cybersecurity spending in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 14.63% through 2031.
• 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.

The report also examines how evolving regulations and data localisation requirements are reshaping enterprise security priorities — factors that influence where and how enterprises deploy data infrastructure across the continent's markets — identifying openings 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.

Commenting on the report, Heirs Technologies Chief Executive Officer Obong Idiong said: “At Heirs Technologies, we believe Africa's 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's digital transformation.”

The report recommends stronger capabilities, greater investment in cybersecurity talent, improved regulatory alignment, and closer collaboration between enterprises, policymakers, and technology providers. With its spending projections extending to 2031, the report gives businesses and regulators in its three focus markets a multi-year horizon against which to weigh security investment, talent development, and compliance planning as the continent's digital economy expands.

Heirs Technologies is a pan-African technology solutions provider empowering businesses through innovative offerings tailored to the African context while delivering to global standards. Its service portfolio spans Cybersecurity and Digital Trust, Data and AI, Cloud and Infrastructure, Managed Services, and Enterprise Products.

A subsidiary of Heirs Holdings, the company leverages the group's pan-African footprint and commitment to Africapitalism to help organisations accelerate digital transformation and unlock sustainable value.