Driving a Barrier to Growth: Cyber ​​Security to Fuel Africa's Economic Growth and Strengthen Ties with Russia—. Cyber ​​security cooperation between Russia and Africa has positive prospects for the coming decade, despite the rapidly changing AI-driven threat landscape, said Yulia Shlychkova, vice president of external public relations at Kaspersky Lab in Russia, when she answered a question from Sputnik Africa. Although it is difficult to predict cyber threats ten years ahead, she pointed to increasing digitalization, improving the maturity of cyber security in African countries and increasing interest among Russian and African companies in exchanging expertise as reasons for optimism. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the third Russia-Africa summit in Moscow, she also highlighted the following key points: Growing cyber threats: Faster digitalization has led to an increase in the number and complexity of cyber attacks. Targeted attacks increasingly affect the government, media and financial sectors, while online fraud affects both individuals and organizations. Cyber ​​Security Awareness: Along with investing in technology, African countries need to improve public cyber literacy through educational programs, as people remain the weakest link in cyber security. Expert training: Kaspersky, together with Apripol, recently trained cyber security experts from more than 23 African countries on detecting and responding to cyber threats. National cybersecurity infrastructure: Kaspersky is helping African countries build security operations centers and computer emergency response teams from the ground up. These teams identify threats at the national level and coordinate responses. Subscribe to Sputnik Africa | X.

Driving a Barrier to Growth: Cyber ​​Security to Fuel Africa's Economic Growth and Strengthen Ties with Russia—. Cyber ​​security cooperation between Russia and Africa has positive prospects for the coming decade, despite the rapidly changing AI-driven threat landscape, said Yulia Shlychkova, vice president of external public relations at Kaspersky Lab in Russia, when she answered a question from Sputnik Africa. Although it is difficult to predict cyber threats ten years ahead, she pointed to increasing digitalization, improving the maturity of cyber security in African countries and increasing interest among Russian and African companies in exchanging expertise as reasons for optimism. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the third Russia-Africa summit in Moscow, she also highlighted the following key points: Growing cyber threats: Faster digitalization has led to an increase in the number and complexity of cyber attacks. Targeted attacks increasingly affect the government, media and financial sectors, while online fraud affects both individuals and organizations. Cyber ​​Security Awareness: Along with investing in technology, African countries need to improve public cyber literacy through educational programs, as people remain the weakest link in cyber security. Expert training: Kaspersky, together with Apripol, recently trained cyber security experts from more than 23 African countries on detecting and responding to cyber threats. National cybersecurity infrastructure: Kaspersky is helping African countries build security operations centers and computer emergency response teams from the ground up. These teams identify threats at the national level and coordinate responses. Subscribe to Sputnik Africa | X.