East Africa’s digital economy now processes billions of transactions and anchors everything from tax collection to transport fares. But the systems powering that growth are scaling faster than the security built to protect them. A new report by cybersecurity firm SmartComply, released in Nairobi on Thursday, argues that cyber risk in the region has moved beyond IT departments and into the core of economic stability. The report frames cyber failure in highly digitised economies as economic infrastructure risk, not a technical outage. In markets where payments, identity systems, and public services operate at a population scale, disruption now carries macroeconomic consequences. Between April and June 2025, more than 4.5 billion cyber threat events were recorded in Kenya, with estimated l...